Where exactly did the idea of national day care come from? Whose bright idea was this? We have huge problems with healthcare, the environment, the native situation, etc and now the government is going to branch into day care? Give me a break. Aside from the idiocy of the government getting involved in this, the government should fix the broken programs they are running before getting into something else.
If there was truly a need for more daycare spaces, then the free market would start creating more daycare spaces. I heard a liberal MP in parliament discuss how people would not need to set up spycams in order to ensure their children are not being abused if national day care was in place. Explain that logic? They couldn't even monitor their own when it came to Adscam. How on earth are they planning to monitor daycare workers in the system?
The government should stay out of this and concentrate on fixing what they are already responsible for.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Nanny State - no thanks
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And wasn't there a huge mess with abuse in native schools. Isn't that under federal "management"?
From a medical perspective, I have never heard any discussion about the impact day cares have on transmission of viral infection. We know that children in day care get more viral infections that children that are "home sat". That may be OK in itself, but there have been studies done to show that the mothers of children in day care have a high incidence of sero-conversion to many viruses. This could have implications on the fetus if the mother is pregnant. (Best known of these viral infections is German Measels, but there are many others).
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