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Cash could be better spent outside daycare : Comments
By Jennifer Buckingham, published 26/10/2007Well-designed child care programs can be effective for children from socio-economically disadvantaged families, but it does not justify public funding for the expansion of universal child care.
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I am fortunate enough to have my son in a community based child care centre for 2 days a week. He started going when he was 10 months old... and at the beginning it was terrible and heartwrenching for both of us to leave him there. But I have been there during the day, I have seen how they operate and have also seen the interaction he has with his friends there that I cannot provide. From this experience I cannot recommend good quality child care highly enough.
FYI in the 70's is was called Child Endowment... my parents went over the income threshhold when I was about 6-7, just as my parter and I are over the threshold for FTB part A and not eligible for part B.
Perhaps some of the closed minded prior posters could consider the cost of benefits if all working mothers quit and stayed home to look after the kids, how far taxes would need to be raised to meet those costs, where the skills shortage would be at, what level immigration would need to be raised to meet labour demands, how many more houses would be required to be built to house the immigrants, what level inflation would reach, the subsequent effect on our environment, and if we would stumble into recession or even depression because of it.