Child-Care Support

* Negative news always has legs. So it was when a study revealed that, perhaps, children who spend many hours in day care are more aggressive when they get to kindergarten. Those who are unwilling to recognize that the world has changed, that many mothers have to work, took great delight in pointing out that women belong at home with their children during the early years.

But the real story regarding child care appeared on April 29: “Day-Care Study Notes Struggles With Staffing.” It notes that the pay of child-care workers, always very poor, has gone down over the past few years and that better-educated child-care workers are being replaced by those with less education and experience. This is the important story. Where is the outrage? Where is the call for higher wages for those who mold our young children?

JOY PICUS

Woodland Hills