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Originally Posted by Lurch
I agree with you - but what does getting $1200 per year do towards this goal? Does it make an existing stay at home parent any better? Will it improve the currently existing daycares? Really, in what way does money in your pocket improve your parenting. I might buy that parents would be slightly less stressed financially, but it seems weak that $100/month would improve enough parents lives that suddenly they will become better parents.
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Would it make an existing stay at home parent any better? Never know.. they might choose to buy extra educational materials with that money, or might just use it for every day expenses. Never know.
One thing that it might do is allow more parents who want to stay home the ability to do so. As you said, $1200 isn't that much, but it can be the difference between being forced to work and being able to stay home. Why try and take that choice out of the parents hands by only subsidizing one of the choices?