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1. Gordon Brown, I would like to know why there is no financial support for parents wanting to bring up their children properly, rather than farming their children off to childminders/nurseries.
   
   My husband and I have decided that we want to have someone at home bringing up our son until he goes to school, to give him the best start in life - rather than just sending him into childcare.
   
   If we put him into childcare we would receive financial support to help pay for this, which we could afford to then do.  However, we have chosen that have someone at home with him, meaning that we loose one of our salaries until he is of school age - however there is no financial support available to us.
   
   Prehaps if more incentives were made for parents to look after their children properly (as they all should anyway), then we would not have children like we hear about all of the time on the news, involved in various aspects of crime.  Now is the time to help families support their children, rather than having to put them into childcare with people who are only looking after the for the money (rather than a desire to help them ), so that we can turn this country around.
   Asked by BoRed79 on Mar 03 2009 9:03:40 AM and supported by 16 members
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