Consistency blog 6

Although families no matter their economic stance have been patching their child’s care together for years the only difference is that low income families don’t have many choices. Low income families use day care centers but they are expensive and sometimes they have grants and scholarships for them, they use friends or friends of friends and family or neighbors. There isn’t anything wrong with this but the independent child care givers do not give consistency or work on education. There isn’t any structure and no way of telling if the child is getting what they need out of their care. Though mothers have different preferences many of the moms liked the structured day care that was expensive they felt it gave a constant to their child’s lives and was dependable others liked having children at their parents or friends because it was familiar faces taking care of their children. Consistency seemed to play a large part in any of the decisions, many of the problems with using non contract child care is that the provider doesn’t have the training or they will start making requests that are unattainable (like in Brittney/Bethany’s situation) or they become unreliable which can be harmful to the child and put their mother’s job at risk.

What is sad is those actual childcares providers won’t take the child care welfare vouchers mostly because the paperwork is tedious. In my opinion day care schools are for education and to make sure children are being provided for when their parents are working. This oddly enough resembles the poor education low income children get when they become older. Its discriminating and classist which harms not only the child and the family but our economy, every child needs child care and as a country we can’t force someone to work without presenting aid for their families they need more than a job to pull themselves up and out of welfare.