re: #124 allegro

I actually am dubious about both Obama and Romney’s proposal. Having moms stay home while subsided by the government directly, rather than having moms go out and work while daycare is used, is a superior solution to me. There’s a whole host of psychological reasons why a single mom staying home with their kids would be better than daycare for the kids. However, the reason that Obama (and probably Romney) proposed this is that it’s a lot better for the economy: daycare can handle kids at a much higher ratio than the stay at home moms can, so you’d have more people working, and that work would be part of the economy rather than hidden in non-paying motherhood.

Of course, there’s no current way to force parents to actually spend time with their kids rather than going off to bridge practice or whatever, so their solutions are probably actually more practical than my ideal one, at least until we change our culture. My idea would have to be twinned with some way to set and measure expectations of parental involvement, and that’s pretty tricky.