[Valpal1]

This must be uncomfortable reading for many parents because they have chosen to leave their tiny children in day care and they know inside themselves that it is often not the right thing to do.

[SALChamps03]

This must be uncomfortable reading for many parents because they have chosen to leave their tiny children in day care and they know inside themselves that it is often not the right thing to do.

Says whom? You?

[jayef]

My children go to daycare and I have NEVER felt that there is ANYTHING wrong with it. Thanks for your silly opinion though.

[FourPeas]

This must be uncomfortable reading for many parents because they have chosen to leave their tiny children in day care and they know inside themselves that it is often not the right thing to do.

Yep.

[RKV]

Yep.

[Mr J]

I cannot think of any act more antithetical to the maternal instinct than deliberately abandoning one's own young child, even if only for a few hours.

[ishabibble]

That is exactly right. "Uncomfortable" doesn't even cover it...in the case of my own daughter, it was pure selfishness. However, being a battle-scarred mother during the 80's, which I survived very nicely on homecooking and a real genius for bargain shopping, I was able to emotionally manipulate, that is to say SHAME, my daughter into seeing the cold hard fact that her son was being harmed by being in a windowless concrete building with people I wouldn't let watch my dog. For three yrs. I never called my grandson anything but "Veteran Commuter". I wrote my daughter a long apology letter, stating that if I had known the damage a Masters degree would have on VC, I would have never sent her to that overpriced university. I can only thank God that she went to college before Girls Gone Wild took hold. I also took one week's worth of coffee cups and fast food wrappers out of her car and giftwrapped them.

My daughter quit her "career" and is a full-time wife and mother now. She will be having her second child in the early summer. It was never about money since Mr. X gave them a beautiful house and vehicles when they married, it was about feminism. My poor girl was brainwashed with the idea that her worth was tied to a workplace, a title, a salary and perks. She is pretty happy these days, if a little chagrined, and my grandson is over the moon to be with his mommy every day.

This article is dead on. Watch it be buried before dawn tomorrow.