Laura Perrins of the Mothers At Home Matter group had this to say regarding a recent government survey showed that women really would prefer to spend more time with their children.
'Ministers have placed relentless pressure on mothers to do exactly the opposite by bringing in policies that separate mothers from their young children. They care nothing for the needs of growing children or the desires of mothers who want to love and care for their children at home.
Until now the Government has only looked at measures of how they can lock up the toddlers in institutional care for ever longer hours.
This is not what families want. They want time to care for their children. Instead of expanding childcare, for which families have no desire, we should be moving to a family-friendly taxation system.'
'The Government thinks that the promised land lies in work, but for most families work is a means for supporting their family - a means to an end, not an end in itself.
These (middle-class) families have the option of sacrificing a salary to care at home; it is not going to break them, whereas lower income families, it seems that the choice is being more or less denied to them.'
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