Daycare Dangers

[Lyss]

If you were to pick a cause to promote the importance of choice why would you choose child care? Why not focus on the segments of the population that really pose a significant risk? Did you KNOW that child care providers are not even close to the greatest risk to children?

I'm all for education but really wonder why child care providers are targeted when statistics show they are a markedly less risk than the childs parents and boyfriends.

Why did you pick child care? Is it because money is exchanged?

I'm wondering this too. Do you have any experience dealing with individuals in the child care profession or is this just based off a recent story in the news?

I hate sweeping generalizations about the field and providers. I often get rude comments or generalizations that insinuate that I don't care or just sit around all day letting the kids run amuck from people that don't have kids or have no experience with child care (or those few that have had negative experiences).

News/media report the bad, it sells. I could make those same generalizations about organized religion because I hear about kids being abused all the time in the news. Does that mean its really what happens in every place of worship? Umm no

[Blackcat31]

I actually did not mean to come across as a troll. What I didn't realize was the audience on here, which is completely my fault. I wanted to voice to parents that choosing a good daycare is important because there are so many stories out there of awful things happening to children. I do realize there are good daycares out there, and I encourage parents to find those good daycares.

Then a more appropriate title of your thread would have been "Choosing a Good Daycare"