[hugh4]

Why is your solution more government involvement? Why not less?

If there's so much money to be made in child are, why aren't childcare centres popping up on every street corner? It's the kind of business you can easily run from your house. Get five neighbours to pay you twenty bucks a day to look after their kid, and everybody is coming out ahead.

I can only assume that the reason it doesn't happen is massive government licensing requirements.

[merpnderp]

That's exactly why it doesn't happen. In OK you must get specialized certifications to look after more than one kid who isn't your own.

[vacri]

How on earth is anyone going to get elected on a platform of "less regulations around children" in today's political climate?

[thaumasiotes]

> Get five neighbours to pay you twenty bucks a day to look after their kid, and everybody is coming out ahead.

Well, except the kids.

[protomyth]

You might want to look at the Harvard study on Head Start before you render that judgement.

[hugh4]

Kids don't care, as long as they have a yard to play in and some other kids to play with.

[thaumasiotes]

Having been one of these kids, I can assure you this is totally untrue.

[jacalata]

Who said you had a yard?