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>>Bill, I'll grant that Tamar is correct in one sense - there's been a much-needed culture change.
>Needed for what?
>To create a day-care industry?
>Does anyone seriously believe that having a six-week old baby in day care is better for either the child or the mother than having the mother at home with the child?

Maybe when the US joins the rest of the world in offering paid parental leave, we'll stop putting 6-week-old kids in day care.

Also worth pointing out that it can be the father who stays home.

Tamar