It's really important as we talk about what families need, to be honest. She added that the question parents should be asking is not whether day care is good or bad, but why the government doesn't do more to help them. Other countries start right. U.S. parents mostly are on their own when it comes to child-care. Although numerous studies have found that quality day care can enrich children academically and socially, that kind of care requires deep pockets.
Many families find they have to trade quality for affordability.
Dr. Berry Brazelton, a pediatrician whose books have helped a generation of parents raise their children, feels many parents have few options when trying to find good child-care. Nearly 80 percent of child-care you or I wouldn't trust with our children. Nor would the mothers. Think what that means to a mother who has to leave her child with somebody else. It's just scary.