Hey, Regulators. Hands Off Child Care!
4th October 2016
Read it.
The experts want us to entrust our kids to expensive, micromanaged strangers rather than pay our friends and neighbors to look after them.
Of course. What could go wrong?
Oh no! Why would anybody entrust their children to an illegal shadowy underworld (as cool as that sounds)? Well, it turns out that “most of the unregulated providers are known to the parents—a neighbor or a friend—and the convenience is attractive. Parents of infants are also sometimes hesitant to leave their babies with people they have only just met, the specialists said.” In addition, unregulated day care is cheaper, “undercutting licensed home providers by as much as $150 per week.”
So… entrust your beloved children to expensive strangers, or inexpensive friends and neighbors. It’s so hard to decide.