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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Even when parents work, they provide the majority of care in most instances. They make the decisions, care the most about their children's interests and are the ones who are there unconditionally when needed. Even if you want to make this about physical awake time with the child, I have a nanny 50 hours a week and at minimum I get pretty much as much awake time as she does (1.5 hours in the morning, 2 in the evening and 11 per day on the weekends for a total of 39.5 vs. 40 hours a week with nanny (DC takes a 2 hour nap). This doesn't count, of course, vacations, holidays, sick days, middle of the night wake ups, days I take time off or days I work from home. But more importantly, why is there this mean-spirited debate that attempts to minimize the parent's role in a child's life? Is it your position that any child with full time working parents and changing caregivers will be severely damaged? So basically every kid in daycare is screwed? Sorry, but that's not really how it works, as a number of child development experts on this board have pointed out. Stability in home life can absolutely come from working parents (and it can absolutely ALSO come from nannies - they don't need to be mutually exclusive here).[/quote]

Excellent post and very true.[/quote]

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