California May Pay Parents to Watch Their Own Kids Posted: 5 months ago by bornbad
County officials say the move to expand child-care payments to thousands of welfare-recipient parents -- allowing them to stay home and tend to their children under 6 years old full-time.
*WTF?*
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Posted: 5 months ago by Interesting:
Actually, except for the whole welfare thing, I'm all for encouraging parents to stay at home with their kids. I think many of today's societal ills stems from the fact that parents are letting total strangers raise their kids.
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Posted: 5 months ago by Marli:
Not even "letting", but needing to. I agree with you that it's always better for a kid if one parent can stay home with them for the first few years at least, but it's becoming rare for a young family to be able to make it work on one salary any more.
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Posted: 5 months ago by 2manyusernames:
sorry, this is a dupe
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Posted: 5 months ago by makri:
This is good news. I know Finland does this, and I think the rest of the Nordic countries do too.
The more kids have time with a parent during early childhood the better.
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