Dear Editor:
RE: Please reconsider, March 21.
Sue Mckenzie hit the nail on the head. Stay home and raise your kids, especially if you want the healthiest kids for life.
A Times study in 1999 concluded that the kids who do best in life are those who are with their mothers until age five – bar none. If affordability is an issue for you in supporting your children, then you need to alter your plans about having them.
Again, Sue is right and I add to her suggestions: space your kids apart so you have only one with care needs at a time; work opposite shifts to reduce the number of hours a child needs care; and give up your toys and indulgences.
There should never be an established “right” to daycare as was suggested by Victoria Mountain (People deserve better, March 21). That “right” is basically you reaching into my pocket for tax dollars in order to support your lifestyle choices.
The weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth over not procuring daycare means those demonstrating this manipulative tactic need to take responsibility for themselves. Ridding the country of this ill-thought-out program would be in the best interest of everyone. Alternatively, give the subsidy directly to the parent(s) and tax the income received.
The additional level of bureaucracy to administer this program doubles the cost of the benefit being administered. What a colossal waste of money and allowance of reneging on responsibility.
Joy Lippai,
Arthur