Daycare workers to take funding issue to streets

This is an extremely important issue.
Daycare has raised four of my grandchildren and they have received top notch care.  These people are surrogate parents teaching everything from potty training to social interaction.  Their job is crucial to the well being of children and their parents. Funding, unfortunately is always the glue to improving, sustaining and maintaining this crucial early day development. 

I am in total agreement with the daycare workers.  They are amazing!

If, as they say, day care operators need more money, the childrens’ parents should pay more. It should not be the responsibility of all tax payers to help fund day cares.

This is a good example of why it is so stupid for government to subsidize what is supposed to be private enterprise, and if this business can’t make a go of it for whatever reason (inefficiency, mismanagement; etc), then why should the taxpayer fund it?

Businesses, and day care is a business.. want to give a thought about how much they are jacking up their prices.. They will price themselves out of someones ability to use their service. 

I know I would be looking around for a Grandma in my neighborhood if they prices go beyond my ability to pay.

Child care is important sure, but as a tax payer with no children and never wanting any children I don’t see why my tax dollars should go to this. Let those who have children pay the taxes to subsidize the services they are using.

Maybe instead of subsidizing a private business, we should be providing it (if we are to provide anything), funds to the parents and let them decide if they want to use the funds to stay home with their children and raise them or pay it to a daycare?

Just a thought, many parents stay home and raise their own kids with no one subsidizing them.

Why do we expect the taxpayer to pay for things that are not the responsibility of the taxpayer?

If the parents can’t afford the day care rates, then one of them must be earning closer to minimum wage - possibly an income of less than $1000 a month, and probably unhappy at having to work at all.

Christian Heritage Party has had a solution on the books since 1995 - $1000 a month family allowance to any family where a parent—chooses—to stay home to care for children.  Opens up spots, and gives parents who still need it, like single mothers, a chance to shop around for price and location.  Those who want it for lifestyle reasons will get it if they can afford it on two good-sized incomes.

Children win with home-care because day cares allow peer attachment, and peer-attachment is at the root of teen gang violence.  Parents, not other children, are the civilizing influence on children.  Also, the early childhood education advantage is lost by Grade 3 while they work to bring the other children up to the same level.

All childcare in Quebec is subsidized by the government.  Families pay $7 per child per day - that is all.  For those who say parents should simply pay more or daycare that cannot make a go of it tough luck - before you start criticizing them for what you perceive as asking for a handout ensure that you are not asking for any government support for any medical coverage, nor funding for any industry in the territory, nor for your annual wage increase protected by a collective agreement.  Perhaps that should not be the governments responsibility either.  Sound like stupid comments?  So do yours.  No one says the government needs to be solely responsible but our children are indeed our future whether you like kids or not nor whether you think they should be in daycare or not.  Some people simply just have to work and have kids which is not a crime - supporting families to be healthy, productive and contributing members to the local economy and community is not a terrible thing - and all they are asking for is the same support that so many others have already asked for in this town…and have received.  Cut them and parents some slack.

It is the responsibility of the community to raise a child, that has always been the case. However it seems that the modern idea is if it isn’t mine I want no part of it.

At current rates 1 retail job can pay for two daycare slots an infant and a toddler. It does get cheaper as the child(ren) get older but in my experience it’s the other way around for pay increases at work.

With NOTHING left over, is this fair to the single mother/father trying to do the responsible thing by not going to welfare and getting a daycare subsidy?

Perhaps daycare owners could take some of the money they get from the government and pay there employees more if they are that concerned about it.  We can’t keep looking at the government as some endless source of money.  People in the Yukon have to start taking more responsibility for themselves and quit expecting the government to continually bail them out.

DG….Actually the responsible thing to do if your that broke and struggling to get by, is to have no children.
If it is the communities responsibility to as you say…raise a child, imagine if the “community” actually did.
There are many good kids in our community, they and their parents/care givers know who they are…need not our help to instill “values”.

On the flip side there are heaps of kids raising kids (how that is my fault/problem…I’m still wondering).
Often, but not always those same folks are the ones with their hands out wanting only our cash not values or opinions.

Daycare to costly?
Condoms are free all over town.

Oh right on, a protest for receiving more of someone else’s money to pay your bills. And to add credibility Liz Hanson is on board.