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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just wanted to share my thoughts about the concept of daycare [i]in general[/i]. I am wondering if anyone agrees with how I feel.  It saddens me that so many of us put our kids in daycare.  Daycare was my plan when I got pregnant with my first, but after a few weeks of it, I realized that I wanted to be the one raising DC and I quit my job.  I am lucky that we were able to afford to get by on just DH's income. I understand that, in this country (especially in the DC area, and other metropolitan areas like it), both parents often [i]have[/i] to work in order to be able to support their children.  I'm not trying to insult any families that are doing that.  My comments are more about the way we're living collectively in this country, where parents find it necessary to outsource the important task of raising their children to person or persons they barely know.  Is daycare a common thing in other countries, I wonder (e.g., the Scandinavian countries, where standards of living and quality of life are reported to be so high?) It just seems so unnatural to me...the idea of having people we don't know that well spend more waking hours with our little ones than we do.  Sometimes I wonder if it has something to do with the general degeneration of our society (in my opinion).  Thanks for listening.[/quote]

I don't think it represents a degeneration of society.  It's just a different way of ensuring our children get taken care of.  My mother marvels at the fact that parents today actually [i]play[/i] with their children -- much more than she ever did with us, or her parents did with her.  We seem to have this image that long ago, mothers were constantly playing with their children and nurturing them until adulthood, when in reality it was likely siblings raising the kids (in large families) and fathers playing little or no role in the child rearing.[/quote]

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