Listened to Diane Rahm on NPR on the way back from Concord yesterday. The guests were bewailing the terrible trials of parents, the difficulty of finding daycare, the difficulties of after school care, the unfairness of spending time to care for their children instead of advancing their careers, the difficulties of covering children during spring vacations, and on and on. All guests agreed that more government assistance was needed to protect the family. And wasn't it terrible how those Republicans refused to provide for all these deserving parents.
Well, speaking as a veteran parent, we experienced all those difficulties, and we coped, one way or another. Improvise, adapt, overcome, it works for parenting as well as for the Marines. We didn't expect government assistance, we expected child rearing to call for some sacrifices on our part. The emotional rewards of raising a family more than compensated for those sacrifices.
More government subsidies not required.
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