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The Trojan Horse of Child Care
by Allan Carlson, Ph.D, The Howard Center for Family
Religion & Society,
www.profam.org, 29-Jan-98 |
Seventy-eight years ago, in 1920, the great
English Catholic journalist G.K. Chesterton wrote, concerning the "child
care" issue of his day:
If people cannot mind their
own business, it cannot possibly be more economical to pay them to mind
each other's business, and still less to mind each other's
babies....Ultimately, we are arguing that a woman should not be a mother
to her own baby, but a nursemaid to somebody else's baby. But it will not
work, even on paper. We cannot all live by taking in each other's washing,
especially in the form of pinafores*....
* a sleeveless garment worn by small girls, similar to an
apron
Jump ahead now, to the White House Conference
on Child Care, held this last October (1997). The most wildly applauded line
by the most enthusiastically-received speaker--(California child care
consultant Patty Siegel)--was this: (and I quote) "The child care crisis is
so acute that child care workers in many areas of the country are unable to
find adequate day care for their own children."
Alas, Chesterton's little joke, his reductio ad
absurdum* of 1920, has become white hot truth: the core of the
crisis-of-the-day.
*reductio ad absurdum -
A method of proof which proceeds by
stating a proposition and then showing that it results in a contradiction,
thus demonstrating the proposition to be false.
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The Trojan Horse of Child Care
by Allan Carlson, Ph.D, The Howard Center for Family
Religion & Society,
www.profam.org, 29-Jan-98 |
After a massive increase in spending on child
care and development programs, the Department of Defense now cares each day
for over 200,000 children in some 800 centers, making the Pentagon the
nation's largest child care provider.
...What's going on? Why do new mothers seem to choose day care over home
care? Why are businesses under mounting pressure to move into the child care
business? Why is a 'downsizing' military shifting resources from maintaining
"combat divisions" and building "warships" into the construction of child
care centers?
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The Trojan Horse of Child Care
by Allan Carlson, Ph.D, The Howard Center for Family
Religion & Society,
www.profam.org, 29-Jan-98 |
(Government support of daycare) is not about what
is good for little children; it is about replacing mothers with caregivers
paid by and beholden to the state.
This is socialism, my friends, a direct assault on the integrity and
independence of families, who through all time have been the only reliable
rivals to governmental power. The current Federal system of subsidies and
tax preferences for substitute child care directly suppresses families and
works to eliminate mother care.
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