From BDSM for four-year olds to trans widows whose ex-husbands are now ex-wives: at least, the current avalanche of madness is making waves on the internet.
Long, long ago, my Dad joined the Navy to serve in WWII. Mom was left with we two brothers. And no money, no savings, no nothing so she had to work. And we went to stay with a woman we knew as Mom Mender. I was less than three and Ted was about 15 months. That lasted until 1946 when Dad came home. Yes, there were issues. We saw on a weekend day. We must have entertained ourselves. We didn’t have other kids to play with until I got to go to Kindergarten. I wouldn’t advise it and I don’t blame Mom.
These were certainly hard times, different times. If financial circumstances don't allow parents to take care of their children themselves, daycare of course becomes necessary and beneficial, enabling single parents to provide for their family.
In her article Haynes is referring more to those families - and women in particular because they are, by nature, the ones most tied up in childbearing and child-rearing - who decide to have kids and return to work some months later to continue their careers. I found her conclusive statement on this very interesting: "A real Mommy war should break out if educated working feminists continue to wear blinders about daycare, and thereby enable a society where elite children get artisanal mothering (or its nanny-care facsimile), with 'factory farms' for everyone else. Developmentally-adequate care for all babies is a fundamental social justice issue."
Long, long ago, my Dad joined the Navy to serve in WWII. Mom was left with we two brothers. And no money, no savings, no nothing so she had to work. And we went to stay with a woman we knew as Mom Mender. I was less than three and Ted was about 15 months. That lasted until 1946 when Dad came home. Yes, there were issues. We saw on a weekend day. We must have entertained ourselves. We didn’t have other kids to play with until I got to go to Kindergarten. I wouldn’t advise it and I don’t blame Mom.
These were certainly hard times, different times. If financial circumstances don't allow parents to take care of their children themselves, daycare of course becomes necessary and beneficial, enabling single parents to provide for their family.
In her article Haynes is referring more to those families - and women in particular because they are, by nature, the ones most tied up in childbearing and child-rearing - who decide to have kids and return to work some months later to continue their careers. I found her conclusive statement on this very interesting: "A real Mommy war should break out if educated working feminists continue to wear blinders about daycare, and thereby enable a society where elite children get artisanal mothering (or its nanny-care facsimile), with 'factory farms' for everyone else. Developmentally-adequate care for all babies is a fundamental social justice issue."