I don't support the idea at all (this thread is not about debating this issue though) but another thing struck me: suppose I did like the idea. Who would be the most logical group to support in the fight for state-run childcare?

A) A parents' association
B) A childcare workers' union
C) The Canadian Auto Workers's union

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Who would be the most logical group to support in the fight for state-run childcare?

A) A parents' association
B) A childcare workers' union
C) The Canadian Auto Workers's union

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B) A childcare workers' union

CUPE pledges to mobilize members for child care

[ 01 April 2006: Message edited by: CUPE_Reformer ]

..the daycare proposal has nothing to do with social justice. It's about whether we as a society encourage parents to abdicate their role as primary caregivers or embrace it. There is nothing socially just (or arguably even beneficial)about millions more middle class families warehousing pre-school age children because they a)find it stressful or b)inconvenient to their careers. Most families can survive with a used car and a smaller home during pre-school years. The fact that they convince themselves that it is in their infants' best interests that they keep fundkng their consumer habit (or protect their pension, or make that next pay raise, seniority, or senior partner etc etc..or whatever other excuse gets people through the night)is simply a reflection of their own disconnect from what's really important in life.

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Originally posted by HiBias:
. . the labour movement's desire to have every mommy ship her child off to a state run (union run) daycare is a bad idea (on every socialogical level). The labour movement is not helping bring justice to families but is actually helping to undermine them. Justice for women doesn't automatically dictate that they be entirely freed from the rigours of motherhood.

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Originally posted by HiBias:
It's about whether we as a society encourage parents to abdicate their role as primary caregivers or embrace it. There is nothing socially just (or arguably even beneficial)about millions more middle class families warehousing pre-school age children because they a)find it stressful or b)inconvenient to their careers.

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You're absolutely right, parents who use daycares are uncaring and neglectful, but we shouldn't single them out. Let's punish all parents who've ever gone out for a night and hired a babysitter, parent's who've dropped their kids off with friends and family while running errands, parents who've dropped kids off with grandma and grandpa while they go on vacation, parents who are too lazy to drive their own children to school and rely on state-provided schoolbuses, parent's who've ever worked out at a YMCA and left the kids with the YMCA's childcare staff, parents who have ever sent their children to camp....

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Originally posted by fern hill:
'Nother knuckle-dragger. 'Rigours of motherhood'. Yeesh.

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Must've been shill school cutbacks. Nobody's safe from the bastards.

[ 02 April 2006: Message edited by: Fidel ]

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Originally posted by HiBias:
Research is now finally being disclosed clearly showing that day care kids are more likely to be maladjusted.

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Originally posted by HiBias:

Research is now finally being disclosed clearly showing that day care kids are more likely to be maladjusted.

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