Published: 10 Jan 11 11:43 CET | Print version
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Sweden's childcare allowance, strongly promoted by the Christian Democrats as a way to help parents who wish to spend more time at home with their young children, has been a fiasco, according to a previously unreleased report.
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P.S. Why is it not possible to debate the memory tax fiasco also?
I just love Sweden, there is always something stupid to laugh at.
Shock! Surprise! Women stay at home with their children, and the men go off to hunt to bring back food to the lair! Wow, what an amazing discovery that this is still happening! Will suprises never cease!
Listen, folks, we are products of biology. Women have PMS and children because of biology. Men go off to hunt, ... er, I mean, go to the office to work... because of testosterone. I know we have a Western society that wants to drain men of testerone and pump women full of it, but really that's just grotesque. We (not me, actually)think it's ok to dump kids in daycare while mommy goes off to work, so baby is with strangers all day long. And then do we wonder why baby grows up to have attachment issues? Please don't tell me that although you were dumped in daycare, you don't have attachment issues; because after half a century of this practice, I seriously doubt anyone would recognize their attachment issues. Such issues would seem like the norm. And for the same reason, there are two entire generations who don't have a clue what they've lost or why things aren't working so smoothly or why society is falling apart.