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Originally posted by Mia,
I personally don't understand this unless it is the only option.
When people tell me they just had their baby 6 months ago, and are working full time again, I look for something with which to beat them.
1) Many are simply not safe. I have heard of at least three babies who have died this year due to day-care negligence.
A friend found a fantastic one - there are cameras everywhere and you can log online anytime and watch your baby.
Her whole family spot-checks in person as well, and the baby is always being fed or changed or held or played with.
I still object to this full-time. It can't be right for the baby's mental and emotional development.
Plus I think it's too young to be exposed to all the viruses and other infections, etc.
Anyone here have personal experiences to relate and/or comments? |
I just subscribe to what you said. With the additional observation that there are many families out there who KNOW that the mother staying home with the infant is the right thing to do - BUT THEY CANNOT AFFORD THIS REALITY.
Of course, to this you can always argue: "then they should not have had the baby in the first place". Which is probably true.
I dream of a utopian world where the middle- and the lower- classes would miraculously come to their senses and suddenly stop having babies for the simple reason that they cannot afford them; so the "-uppers" will have a smaller and smaller pool of labor available to them, fewer desperate job seekers to choose from and implicitly more decency and humanity in them.
Maybe THEN they will understand that men must make a decent family wage in order to reproduce; and not just CEO-s and doctors, but ALL men.
Perhaps we should leave it to the CEO-s and the doctors to provide tomorrow's pool of labor. Shouldn't we? ...