NO they want them in an environment the gov’t can observe, such as daycare or a licensed home care provider. The reality is that Obama, as well as the democrat party, really want to have gov’t run daycare centers. Through the last 10- 12 years the gov’t has taken more and more control of the daycare centers with regulations & through the welfare system. Welfare moms who needed someone to watch their many children while they look for jobs or further their education needed free childcare. Govt’ started providing it, which opened the door for them to regulate any facilities that offered their services. Most daycare facilities willingly offered service because it was money they were guaranteed to get. Then stricter discrimination laws were put into effect making it harder for those centers to turn away children who were on welfare. The only centers at one time not effected by all of this were the church centers and home daycares that were not lisenced. So the state makes a law like the one above to ensure that they have the power to enforce the provision. Guess which providers are going to face impunitive regulations next? The churches or private religious schools that provide daycare. The gov’t agencies and the “community organizers” have been crying foul since Clinton was in office. I used to work for a childcare management agency that helped “educate” and find services for welfare moms. I saw things that made me loathe the gov’t bureacracy. For a time it got better after congress enacted the welfare reform, however they soon learned how to rework the system. Every state has some form of the above law, but I have a feeling that we will see it enforced more strictly now that Obama is in office. Just another way gov’t can intrude on the people’s personal lives.
Seems like there was something on FR last week about one of the states (Illinois?) that was signing up all licensed day care providers to a union, without the knowledge or consent of the providers.