Childcare Crisis in America - 20 Nov 2003
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...Heidi Brennan of the Family and Home Network believes the U.S. is currently in the midst of a childcare crisis. And she thinks she may know why; Brennan is convinced that the crisis is the result of bad judgments on the part of "experts." She notes that being an expert about the needs and interests of parents and children means listening to parents and children, and the pro-family advocate says the reason there is a childcare crisis in America is "that we've listened to everybody except the parents and the children." Brennan, whose organization has been listening to the problems faced by parents and children for 20 years, says it is unfortunate that the majority of the nation has followed the lead of so-called experts who are nothing more than socialists attempting to supplant the traditional family as the "rearer" of children, and replace the traditional family with the state. She says it is essential for Americans to realize a truth pointed out by the French author and statesman, Alexis de Tocqueville, who noted that families are the root of democracies -- and that, just as it is freedom that preserves a nation's families, it is families that preserve a nation's freedom. |