Taking everyone's children away is a really fucking awful thing to do, to the parents and to the children.
I think you may(!) be aware of my hatred for the actuality of being pregnant, but the fact remains that I spent over a decade with a near-constant physical craving for a child, before getting pregnant the first time, and its slow return was why the second child, and I've just realised it's back again even though I am determined never to be pregnant again.
That's not an ache that would be solved by working in a state creche and is only slightly eased by raising my two beloved and and exasperating offspring.
On the child side, having a few consistent carers over a long period is vitally important - one of the reasons I love N's nursery is they said "you know about our key worker system from when C was in preschool, well in babies we're much stricter about it".
Seriously raising inheritance tax would be a more practical intervention; the pupil premium and its extension to preschool education and childcare is an actual thing that may make life chances less unequal; I'd also like to see something about reducing the house price / school quality correlation (e.g. experimenting with the effect of diffderent %age of school places available by lottery rather than distance).
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Date: 2015-07-03 07:43 pm (UTC)I think you may(!) be aware of my hatred for the actuality of being pregnant, but the fact remains that I spent over a decade with a near-constant physical craving for a child, before getting pregnant the first time, and its slow return was why the second child, and I've just realised it's back again even though I am determined never to be pregnant again.
That's not an ache that would be solved by working in a state creche and is only slightly eased by raising my two beloved and and exasperating offspring.
On the child side, having a few consistent carers over a long period is vitally important - one of the reasons I love N's nursery is they said "you know about our key worker system from when C was in preschool, well in babies we're much stricter about it".
Seriously raising inheritance tax would be a more practical intervention; the pupil premium and its extension to preschool education and childcare is an actual thing that may make life chances less unequal; I'd also like to see something about reducing the house price / school quality correlation (e.g. experimenting with the effect of diffderent %age of school places available by lottery rather than distance).