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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If benefits paid for by the taxpayer are used to pay for others' childcare,  then it should only be granted for the first child.  You cannot  have taxpayers continue to pay for your responsibility for additional children.  Plan on  having one child or plan on saving a lot of money for any future children. [/quote]

Why not?  We all pay for the entire education of a child in public school regardless of how many kids you have.  That’s 13 years minimum.  Why does education start at 5 when learning starts from birth?

Seriously, I’m a SAHM but[b] I don’t get why early learning and daycare isn’t regulated (college educated teachers) and subsidized.  We don’t want a dumb populace and the first five years are the most important for brain development and intelligence [/quote][/b]

I agree.  Investing in early childhood education is investing in the future of our country, whether you have kids or not.  The achievement gap everyone is trying to eliminate starts at age 2.[/quote]

Also agree. I think the people saying "I don't want to pay for this" are being incredibly short sighted. I only have one kid who is already through this phase of life (and we paid on our own for the first four years of childcare/preschool, though did have access to public PK4 and used it) so there is zero personal benefit to my family on these policies as I am too old to have anymore kids. But I know we'll all be better off if kids and families get this support. I'm all for subsidizing and improving daycare and early education and happy for my tax dollars to go to that. There might be growing pains to implementing these policies, but in the long run I think it will mean more educated kids and more stable families. Seems like a win-win all around.[/quote]

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