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Libertarian Solutions: Do we need federal childcare?
lp.org,
© Copyright 2006 Libertarian Party
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Everybody knows
there is a child care crisis -- and that there aren't enough preschools and
day care centers to hold all of the children lining up to get in. Right?
Wrong. As frequently occurs, what "everybody knows" is what everybody has
been told. It often transpires that we have all been given the same faulty
information.
Advocates of government-run child care say private child care is too
expensive for many people, that a shortage of day care centers drives the
cost up. They say it's a taxpayer responsibility to provide early childhood
education and day care for all families who need it, and that most families
with children need the help.
The truth is that this is a manufactured crisis that primarily exists in the
minds of politicians.
...The point is that there is plenty of room in day care centers for
children whose parents want to put them there. However, relatively few
parents actually want to do so.
...(Census data show) the vast majority of children were cared for at home,
with family members. Clearly, millions of Americans simply don't want to
send their kids off to day-care centers, the claims of politicians
notwithstanding.
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Politics
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Libertarian
Solutions: Do we need federal childcare?
lp.org,
© Copyright 2006 Libertarian Party |
But Americans haven't demanded free or
government-sponsored child care.
Some have, to be sure: They're called
socialists, and they're
dedicated to giving you child care and forcing you to pay for it whether you
want it or not.
Don't believe this constitutes socialism? Look at the platform of the
Socialist Party USA. "We support the expansion and full funding of 24-hour
child care facilities..."
And it goes on from there: The platform of the Democratic Socialists of
America includes providing free 24-hour child care.
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Libertarian
Solutions: Do we need federal childcare?
lp.org,
© Copyright 2006 Libertarian Party |
That's yet another fallacy: Children who
go to preschool programs -- government sponsored or not -- have no
long-lasting advantage over children whose first school experience is
kindergarten.
...Toss the program; it doesn't work.
Preschool programs provide no lasting benefits; people don't want to put
their children in preschool or day care in the first place, especially not a
government-run program; and the people who run government preschool programs
say they don't work.
...The solution, then, is to keep our government out of the child care
business, period. Few are actually demanding it, and even those who run it
say it was a failed experiment.
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What Can We Learn from Quebec’s
Universal
Childcare Program?
By Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber and Kevin Milligan, www.cdhowe.org/pdf/ebrief_25_english.pdf
1-Feb-06 |
Our study (conducted by Statistics
Canada) is based on data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of
Children and Youth.
...Several
measures we looked at suggest that children were worse off in the years
following the introduction of the universal childcare program. We studied a
wide range of measures of child well-being, from anxiety and hyperactivity
to social and motor skills. For almost every measure, we find that the
increased use of childcare was associated with a decrease in their
well-being relative to other children. For example, reported fighting and
other measures of aggressive behaviour increased substantially.
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