Daycare Pros And Cons

Some people would view having a baby as a full-time job, but what happens to parents or people who are about to become parents who already work full-time jobs? Would federally funded child care help working parents or is it just another way to waste taxpayers money? Government assistance with childcare has long been considered a service that only helps low income families. It has been viewed as a welfare service by many dating back to the original form of “daycare” run by nuns for poor single or teen moms. The early stages in province wide child care came during the second world war, when the federal government offered to split the cost of daycare so mothers could help join in the war effort. Unfortunately, as soon as the war ended, so did

Traditionalists seem to think that parents place their children in these inferior care conditions because they do not want to pay for proper care and need to attend work to quench their hunger for money. Many people who do not have use for a publicly funded day care system simply view it as another way to spend the tax payers hard earned money on federally regulated “babysitting. The popular belief of citizens opposed to publicly funded daycare is that once you decide to have a child, it is the parents responsibility to cary the burden of the cost and if the parents weren't ready for that kind of financial commitment they should not have started a family. Other conservatives believe that having outside help to raise a child strips away the connection of family values. Essentially they believe that when a child is left at a daycare they are being raised by a stranger. Day care professionals on average spend more time with the child than the parent does. Traditionalists aren't wrong when they say that a child needs to have a close connection to the parent, but unfortunately parents are left no choice but to spend more time working to afford the high cost of living and to support their

There are some solutions to the Child care issues of Canada that have already been implemented in some provinces like Quebec. Quebec integrated a publicly funded day care system for all its residents in 1997. The program is called the $7-a-day program. Until the returns start rolling back because working mothers are paying more income tax, and fewer families are on welfare (which has happened in Quebec) the upfront investment scares most politicians away. Quebec now spends $2.2-billion annually on a national child care program. A program similar to Quebec’s, would cost Canadians an additional $11-billion a year, according to an analysis at UBC’s Human Early Learning Partnership, conducted by Ms. Anderson and Prof. Kershaw. That analysis presented child care for about $10-a-day (and free to families earning less than $40,000). The British Columbia Premier Christy Clark , has said the province can’t afford $10-a-day care. She believes the problem starts with the people of Canada “it’s hard to marshall wide-scale political support … because the parents who need child care are mostly parents with children under 6, and once people’s children get into school, it’s easy for people to forget how difficult those years are”. This reverts back to the proverb mentioned earlier, that “ it takes a village to raise a child”. Everyone needs to take into consideration what it is like to have a