Was anyone else incensed by Yvette Coopers comments on QuestionTime yesterday. I quote "We need to support more free childcare so parents can manage more hours in work...". I do not in any way judge other women who work or choose to stay at home as we all have our own choices to make and I have done both. I do however worry about a society in which being a parent is devalued to the extent that it is the cultural norm to outsource the bringing up of the next generation to paid workers in order to allow us parents to work more. I know many a teacher, policeman, and mental health worker who blame many of the troubles facing our children today on the lack of sufficient parental involvement in their care. Surely we should be building a society in which children can have the fulltime support of a parent should the parents choose to make that choice, rather than a society in which we all have to work in order to keep our families afloat.
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Yvette Coopers comments on Question Time 4 Dec 2014
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Berlin3 · 05/12/2014 13:47
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