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Originally Posted by Osem
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7382924.stm
I tend to agree - breakfast clubs, after school clubs etc. are all too often being used as cheap child care. Our eldest does karate classes 4 evening a week - in the average class of around 20 pupils I'd say that at around 25% are there simply to fill time while their parents do whatever they do. They have no interest in progressing and their parents never bother to watch how they perform. They just drop them off and pick them up. I have some sympathy where money is a real issue but quite a few of those those we've come across own several nice cars and enjoy expensive holidays abroad. Perhaps they place more importance on their lifestyles than their role as parents.
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Well it's not that cut and dried..Some parents are working at low paid jobs and may well have to work particular shifts which will mean that they finish after school has ended.
Personally I would rather a child was attending a breakfast club or post school club rather than being a latchkey kid in an empty house watching rubbish cartoons.Also gone are the days when people lived and died in the area they were born in and as a consequence many don't have any extended family nearby to help out.
Why work..well children are expensive to care for and there are any number of people(quite a few are members here) whom complain about the fact that they as childless singletons have to pay for other people's children and they think it's unfair.So parents who work are being responsible in trying to pay their way in a world that is ever increasingly becoming expensive.The days of a stay at home mother have long gone if you are a low to medium income family.