There are beliefs both sides have of the other's motives that are widely off the mark. Having spent years interacting (and self-identifying, sort-of) with both sides at one time or another, I'm here to report to conservatives the following:

Liberals don't support child care subsidies & paid leave because they are opposed to women (or men) staying at home to raise kids. They certainly aren't doing it for 3D-chess political reasons ("if we get them out of the home, they'll evolve into Democrats!")

They want to support families in which both husbands & wives want to work or have to work, as well as single-parent families where work is necessary.

They believe both that professional opportunities for women are to be supported and that many families have no choice but send two workers into the labor force, and they are trying to give them aid just like they give other people aid.

If they (collectively) have a blind spot, it is overestimating the role of hardship in determining how many families are dual earner and overestimating the share of traditional one-worker families that are well off (and therefore don't need help).

And, of course, not worrying enough about how to pay for things and how policies might increase no-worker single-parent families.

(BTW, returning to the theme of misunderstanding, one way liberals misunderstand conservatives is in thinking that because they worry about unintended consequences and perverse incentives, they hate poor people and blame them for their own poverty.

If you're liberal and we're nodding along knowingly up untill that last tweet, maybe sit with your thoughts for a moment.)