I feel like the overwhelming message to parents is that somebody who “does this professionally” can parent better than you. WTF?
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Warren proposes a childcare policy that has a mom making $15k/year delivering her baby to a childcare system funded by gov w/ providers paid comparably to teachers. Assuming this costs close to what K-12 students cost gov ($12.5k/year) why not just help her raise her own baby?pic.twitter.com/7dUSIXFCn9
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Notice that Rosa already had a friend looking after her baby; we don’t know the quality of Rosa’s friends or their personal circumstances, but the assumption that a state-licensed childcare facility is automatically better than a family friend is a REALLY BIG DEAL.
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Bad take overall. This is helping people raise their children. Providing childcare means a working parent can work. It is not a message about the preference of professional childcare, merely the preference of affordable and available childcare.
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And yet, under this plan, Rosa has no choice. She must work. The government will pay out roughly what it would cost for her to care for her own baby, but she has no access to that.
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I'm not exactly thrilled with the idea of a total stranger on minimum wage raising my (future) kids but what choice do most people have? Most are lucky to even have daycare as an option.
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Creating optimal incentive structures is *very* difficult, so I don’t pretend to have all the answers re: how much funding should attend what. But I do think if you’re subsidizing childcare, you should subsidize parenting & expand families’ options
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Right, why not just give new parents paid leave the first year? Why not give a stipend to businesses with on-site childcare facilities? I can think of a ton of better things to do than this.
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FWIW I think the world would actually be a noticeably better place if childcare + parenting in the workplace were normalized, and both kids & parents knew they were physically near one another throughout the day. This sterilization of early child-rearing is super messed up
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Why should we subsidize and encourage single motherhood?
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IMO, at this point we would do well to encourage motherhood of any variety
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