Comments on: Canada: Universal Childcare Not Good for the Kids

By: Herb

Herb — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:46:27 +0000

But, don't ya know, "It takes a Village to Raise a Child". Quote taken from one who don't know meaning of "raising a child" or the first clue on how to do it.

By: Just Me

Just Me — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:44:36 +0000

I figure there is some combination at work-I do think Patrick makes a good point though-how a parent views the childcare may have a lot to do with how a child develops.

There are a lot of parents who seem to think it is the jobs of public schools to teach their kids things that are non academic in nature, I wonder if this attitude shifts downward as childcare is provided to the preschool crowd.

By: Patrick McGuire

Patrick McGuire — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:18:44 +0000

Being a parent of a 5-yr. old who does go to daycare/preschool (on my own dime, mind you), I believe that the problems arise from parents relying on the daycare to be a substitute parent, totally relieving them of the responsibility, rather than a supplement to their own efforts to raise their children.

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:05:28 +0000

A good test on spencer's theory would be to compare the pre-subsidy institutionalized child care vs informal (friend/family) child care vs the stay at home mom child care numbers. In theory, I would expect the family/friend of the family caring for the child to be in the middle. They have an investment in the child more than the institutionalized child care (genetic or social) but not as much as the mother.

Of course, all of this is averages. Really good childcare is expensive, whether this is forgone opportunity cost for stay at home mom or top rate institutionalized child care.

By: spencer

spencer — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:16:29 +0000

There is obviously a cost to children of having their mother work.

The study does not directly address this point, but that may be the results we are seeing and the fact that it is a government subsidy may be irrelevant.

The NBER summary does not provide enough information to address this point.

It is just as easy to make the argument that this is a subsidy to business that induces women to enter the labor force at a lower wage.

Maybe women's lib was just a capitalist scheme to increase the supply of low priced high quality labor. I know, this sounds stupid, but there is an element of truth in it.

One always tends to find evidence to support ones biases in such studies, but I have always believed that the children are paying a high cost for women lib that is not factored into the debate.

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