Shirley Jiang spent five months looking for a placement for her newborn daughter, Isabel. As a last resort, she sent her daughter back to her parents in China last April. Communication with the eight-month-old dropped back to a nightly webcam.Looking for a childcare place for your newborn? Shipping your kid to China? A last resort? I wonder what other resorts were visited? And don't bother with the webcam thing; at eight months your kid has no idea the screen they are being sat in front of (that in itself is a great way of developing small person!) is anything to do with you.
"My wife will either have to stay home for a few more years or we will have to move to a place where there's child care in the same way people move to areas with good schools."The horror of having to stay at home to look after your own child! For fucks sake stay at home and raise your own child!
Once again, I really am missing something...
If you are unable, unprepared or unwilling to do what is required to bring up your own kid how about you decide not to have a kid? If living at No. 17 wank street means both parents must work to maintain living beyond their means, and if living on wank street is more important that looking after your kid yourself then...well, I don't really know what. Childcare, like cable TV and iPods, should not be regarded as an essential. You really should be able to cope without it. Really.
Stop outsourcing the education and care of your kids. Stop making it the responsibility of others.
For the record Sal and I will almost certainly be placing bump into childcare at some stage. But if we can find no childcare place one of us will stay at home. The sums have been done; as long as one of us works we can cover our costs. And if the money gets too tight we'll sell our house and move to a cheaper place. Simple.
Also for the record, I am sure some people are genuinely struggling, and I do feel for them. It's the whining wankers that irritate me.
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