by those born in the 1950’s, because the 1970’s was when daycare boomed.
Boomed? Popularized by? Your bitterness and lack of history have led you to not attacking childcare itself but something that hurt you in your own life, that fixated you on a generation named boomers.
“The federal government entered the child care business during the 1930s when federally-funded nursery schools were established for poor children.”
“Federal funding for child care and other community facilities was available during the war years under the Lanham Act, which financed child care for an estimated 550,000-600,000 children before it was terminated in 1946.”
“In 1954, Congress enacted a comprehensive revision of the Internal Revenue Code, establishing a statutory tax deduction for child and dependent care expenses.”
“In 1976, the deduction was replaced with a tax credit known as the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit.”