Lemonada So much of our nervous systems are set. by the time children are three. If we can invest in those first three years, we'll see a different kind of society. Those first few years of a child's life have a massive impact on where they end up as adults. In a perfect world, school would look like six weeks to 18 years old. But it's not a perfect world. And when kids don't have access to quality child care and early education, there are huge consequences.
We identified a few children with severe, severe development delays that their parents had absolutely no idea. Even though the pandemic showed all of us how desperately important childcare is, we still don't invest in it like we need to. We are ranked as one of the last industrialized countries as far as quality child care and supporting child care. I'm Gloria Rivera, and this is No One Is Coming To Save Us.
This season, we're diving deep into America's childcare crisis and how it is deeply connected to many of the important issues we're grappling with as a nation. Issues like intergenerational poverty. When a family's in deep poverty and mom is fighting, literally fighting to survive, it's very hard for her to be emotionally there for her child.
You know, homelessness doesn't always look like the person that's dirty and on drugs or, you know, it's me right now sitting here with my baby. And climate change. I walk into our hospital, and the smoke outside was so overwhelming, you could actually smell it inside the neonatal intensive care unit where I work. No One is Coming to Save Us, Season 4, available August 22nd, wherever you get your podcasts.