In a significant reorientation of federal family policy, the Trump administration is drafting a proposal to redirect existing child care subsidies — long a lifeline for working parents — toward married couples who choose to raise children at home. Championed by Vice President JD Vance as a cornerstone of his vision for American family life, the plan reflects an enduring tension in democratic societies between supporting the economic necessity of dual-income households and honoring the choice to step outside the market economy to care for one's own children. The policy, still unlegislated and u