Why? It's documentably damaging to little children's emotional well-being to be separated from their mothers, and especially damaging to little boys, who get wounded in their ability to bond.
If they were in the care of their grandmas, aunts or mature older sisters --- or their dads --- it would be different, since family doesn't go through a staff turnover every couple of months.
But to entrust their hearts to caregivers -- as they do, passionately -- and then get shunted off by workforce mobility--
It's like day-orphanages. It's just not right. Unattached or poorly-attached little boys turn into the grade-scool hellions. Ask any teacher.
If you really have public funding you need to burn through, why not spend it by encouraging effective male family-wage employment, and marriage? (I know, just a dream...) which would free up good, attached mothers to make a happy home-life with their little ones.
Public policy should be about centering, not outsourcing, children's sense of belonging: strengthening --- not replacing --- the family.
Yep. It’s stupid. It’s why I don’t live in New York.
My wife and I have said, constantly, that if we were to have kids today we would home school them. It’s a no brainer.