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RE: I’m Old School
That is a point of view I wasn’t thinking at all, being a mom is labour wasted so outsourcing it creates more jobs. Very interesting and makes sense in terms of monetization. In terms of growing economy, sending moms to work and their children to be raised by other people is smart, but in terms of quality of life, for both parents and children, I don’t think it is a good thing.
It's the worst for children under three years of age. That's because spending the whole day in a large group of other toddlers is too taxing for them. Also, their immune systems are not developed enough to fight off all the infections the spread effectively in nurseries. My daughter was lucky to have grandmothers able to and willing to care for her until she was three. She spent five weeks in a nursery in the autumn following the summer she turned one. She spent three of those five weeks sick at home. It's also better for parent-child bonding to spend enough time together in the early years.