Day care in our country is substandard at best. Children are crowded into small rooms with three or more peers in ratio to one adult. There simply isn't enough funding to regulate daycare facilities. Viruses run rampant. Ask any pediatrician what they think of daycare and expect a passionately negative response. Even if the daycare is a great safe place, hired hands are overworked and have too many charges to tend them all as much as they truly need. If your child is sad or feeling ill or hurting, these people cannot drop everything to hold them and make them feel secure and loved. That is extremely important before school age. Babysitters and nannies are even less regulated and by far more expensive.
The only problem is that the majority of Americans cannot afford to raise their kids.



