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In the US per capita consumption has tripled since 1960. We are the
wealthiest nation living in the wealthiest time in human history and
for the first time in human history we are saying en masse we can't
afford to provide our children with full-time mothering for the early
years of their lives. Is this really true?
The best educated women with the highest earning spouses are the
women most likely to work fulltime after the birth of a baby. More
than 1/2 of the daycare subsidies go to families in the top 30% of
earners, only 3% of the daycare subsidies go to the bottom 30% of
earners. This subsidy averages around $7,000. Additionally
corporations are allowed to provide $5,000 dollars worth of daycare
to families tax free.
A baby is most likely to have a mother fulltime if his parents are
middle income...babies whose parents are at the income extremes are
most at risk for being bottle-fed by mother substitutes. What would
happen if instead of 1.5 billion going to subsidize the daycare of
the top 30% of earners that 1.5 billion went to subsidize mothers to
mother their own children in the home in the bottom 30% of earners?
Why are we permitting government and business to conspire to buy
mothers away from their babies with the tax code?
Jen O'Quinn IBCLC
On Nov 11, 2007, at 7:02 AM, Rachel Myr wrote:
> If Medela had said one word about the unfortunate situation in the
> US, where
> nearly all women must choose between having an income or being with
> their
> babies for the first six or twelve months of the child's life, and
> how their
> products are meant for such women, I might feel more charitable.
> But they
> don't.
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