Instead of Health Care, We should Get Child Care

I disagree, eventually the child will be in school and will only need childcare during the afternoon hours for two or three hours, this means that the mother who is a single parent is at work making money and the state loses two hours of childcare money instead of paying for the family's food, rent, clothing, and healthcare.

Usually if a parent is working in the evening they can get someone to sit for the child much easier than a parent who is working during the day time. Additionally, if the states offered daycare funds then they also cover babysitters in most states, which means that someone you trust can be a state paid sitter as long as their homes pass inspection and they pass the background test. However, with welfare, the poor stay poor, and they are cared for by the money of other people who often end up in the same predicament due to paying higher taxes for these that are staying at home and living on the system. I truly understand if you must stay home because you have a young child at home but I believe that everyone with an older child at home should be working and they should have quality afterschool programs for those children, or a way for the parent to have some daycare benefit to help with caring for their children. In most cases welfare families lead to welfare families, it does not help them to provide for themselves. Young women learn that the state will pay, young fathers learn that they wont pay because she gets money from the state and young children learn that mom got free money. With a daycare system, the mother learns to be independent, the father (in some cases) watches her working and wants to help out, and the children learn how hard mom worked and strive for bigger and better things. Additionally I did not say this had to be for only those in the low paying sector, and not all single mothers would be lowly paid, in fact some are educated and most have skills of some kind, but without childcare they are in the same boat as their lower paid associates who also have similar problems. If the country gave women quality childcare, more women would be able to get to work and stop living in the low income world happily living off others.

This assumes that the parent can get a job that ties in with school hours, often in the low-paid sector this is not the case with working evenings, weekends and shifts often required. This is not to mention school holidays where there are weeks that full childcare is required. If the parent is in a low-paid job they'll probably qualify for help with rent, etc as well as working so the cost to the state isn't that greatly reduced. That and the fact there aren't that many jobs out there never mind that many GOOD jobs...

That is exactly my point, I believe by providing families daycare, the government will have more working parents, which means more independent families, which means more spending that the state didnt provide in the first place which means that their will be more families capable of caring for themselves.

Because the government would never give us both.