I have done jobs that society considers prestigious and difficult. I have never done anything as difficult as looking after small children. I have never done anything as difficult, sleepless night after sleepless night, as maintaining my temper in the face of tantrums and remaining the adult with three under 3½ and a very frenetic six-year-old. We need to value parenting and the difficult work that it is, and what I worry about in the debate is that we have seen a lack of value placed on parenting and lip service paid to the importance of the first thousand days, but not a real appreciation of the value of the unpaid work that we do as parents, and I do not think that it is a coincidence that most of that unpaid work is done by wāhine. I am sorry to say it, but it is the fact. So I see a division opening up, and I worry about it. 