Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Childcare controversy
This clamour over the first 24 hour childcare centre shows how conservatives want to tell people how to live their lives just as much as any other group. I confess to sometimes wondering why people have kids if they don't want to be with them as much as possible. And then I pinch myself. I remember that my parents both worked full-time to escape working-class Manchester to live in a country where they believed my brothers and I would have better lives and better futures. They worked damn hard. Let families work out their own priorities.
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I can't see what the problem is, it provides a needed service. I read somewhere a while back of a child care centre, in England I recall that specialised in looking after sick children of working parents, who couldn't take time off work to care for their sick child.
It is what the free market is all about, providing needed services.
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