tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post113426734775274093..comments2023-12-25T02:46:52.723-04:00Comments on Awareness: Childcare: This Month's Political Football.awarenesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06098432781380754899noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-1134331679030917782005-12-11T16:07:00.000-04:002005-12-11T16:07:00.000-04:00Anonymous asks, who to believe? I say, people sho...Anonymous asks, who to believe? I say, people should believe the majority of parents that don't want to institutionalize their babies.<BR/><BR/>You mock the Tory option, although only 1 in 7 parents send their kids to daycare. And there a good reasons why parents don't send their children to daycare. Many parents prefer to have grandparents look after their children or a neighbour or someone they trust. The obsession with government run daycares has more to do with the tax system than with learning. <BR/><BR/>Most parents don't trust government regulated daycare and for good reason. You cite many current horror stories. One visit to an average public school in a poor neighbourhood would reveal the same lack of quality that you described at some daycares.<BR/><BR/>Ken Dryden may be the 'federal' minister of social development but his job encroaches on provincial areas of jurisdiction. Quebec set up their system without federal interventions but the cost ballooned into the billions. You might want to learn about Quebec's system. Begin here [ http://tinyurl.com/9663l ]and follow the links. <BR/><BR/>Mothers abandoning their children are a greater threat to childhood learning than anything concocted by bureaucrats. Government should get our of people's lives completly. Wasn't that one of the arguments in the SSM debate farce?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17192698.post-1134303708072812332005-12-11T08:21:00.000-04:002005-12-11T08:21:00.000-04:00Awareness wrote, "The need for high quality, acces...Awareness wrote, "The need for high quality, accessible childcare is a reality."<BR/><BR/>However, this immense <A HREF="http://www.daycaresdontcare.org" REL="nofollow">anti-daycare</A> website says it's an impossibility...<BR/><BR/>Who to believe?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com