Reply to NY Mag: Daycare is Broken

Forum Index » Preschool and Daycare Discussion

Reply to "NY Mag: Daycare is Broken"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's broken is an economy that forces a majority of parents to work full-time in order to make ends meet.[/quote]

This.  Institutionalized child care is never a good thing for babies and young children.  It’s just a sad result of our economic system. [/quote]

I agree totally that institutionalized child care is never a good thing for babies and young children.  However, while the economic system often seems to make this inevitable for many families, I also wonder why so many people do not consider this hard fact when planning, or failing to plan, their families.  The attitude in this country seems to be that everyone is entitled to have as many children as they want rather than encouraging people to figure out what they actually can afford, what daycare options they can reasonably plan for, before bringing children into the world.  So many new mothers and many new fathers as well are quite surprised by how much they would prefer to care for their own infants at least the first few years but find they have failed to anticipate this and therefore can't economically find a way to do it.[/quote]

So you anticipated all this ahead of time?  I feel like there was so much I didn’t know about parenting, and how parenting would change me, until I was actually a parent.

Also the problem is if everyone did as you say and only have kids they could “afford” t[b]he birth rate would likely drop pretty dramatically.[/b]  [/quote]

It dropped a LOT right after the 2008 recession and never came back, because people can't afford daycare. [b]But there are too many people in the world for the planet anyway.[/b][/quote]

Can't disagree with you there, but there are consequences with dropping birth rates at the[i] country[/i] level.  You have to be ok with increased immigration, but that is unpopular with a lot of Americans.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics