Child care proposals: Be like Sweden?

There may be valid criticisms of the Trump (Ivanka as much as Donald) child care proposal, but The New York Times and the Huffington Post did not find them.
As is always the case with new proposed social spending, The New York Times chides the United States for being so very retrograde: "Within the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a consortium of 35 countries, including the world's wealthiest, the United States stands out as the only nation that does not already guarantee paid maternity leave."