CHOICES IN CHILDCARE
I completely agree with Dr Penelope Leach (News, 3 September) that parents deserve a choice in where and how to take care of their young children, and this should not depend on the marital status or income level of the parent. To count those factors plays favourites among children, deprives them of equal benefit under the law, and interferes with lifestyle decisions that parents have a right to make on their own. It is true that legislators today were themselves usually not raised with a daycare experience, though the younger ones may have been. Legislators have more options for their own children because they have the salary accompanying their role, and we have many ironies where advocates for daycare in many countries are men, who never had to really deal with the issue of breastfeeding or pregnancy.
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