Thesis: A properly structured government sponsored day care system in America would assist families who struggle to find reliable and affordable care.
I. Topic sentence: Government day cares provide more child development that most parents can’t provide.
a) Expansion: The government requires a certain structural procedure that day cares have to abide by. It likely includes early education, nutrition, or a schedule to follow. This structure fills the child’s needs to become independent and develop more skills needed for early stage development.
b) Evidence: Most parents aren’t skilled enough to be able to know what to teach a child to help with the early stages of development. Due to parents working to be …show more content…
Most parents don’t have the time or means to be able to sit down and teach a child education. Elizabeth Dias states, “50% of full-time working moms who “wish they could be doing more” to be involved with their kids education.” iii. Maureen Pao states, “I didn’t want my kid to be somewhere… for 8 hours and not learn anything, not do anything, with no expectations of growth or development”.
II. Topic Sentence: Child care costs are unaffordable for many and in the long run effects the children.
a) Expansion: Quality, affordable child care provides critical support to our nation’s workforce and is one of the earliest learning settings our children will enter.
b) Evidence: The issue with most families is finding quality care for a reasonable price. This causes most families to either work extra hours and become less involved or compromise the learning development due to the higher expense.
i. Jack Kenny states that Obama said, “I don’t want any family to face the choice between not working or leaving their children in unsafe poor-quality child care.” ii. “Child Care Costs Unaffordable For Many” states, “Moreover, exposure to quality learning environments during the earliest and most fundamental years of brain development set children up for a lifetime of …show more content…
Elizabeth Dias talks about Clinton’s proposal capping a family’s child-care expenses at 10 % of its income, guaranteeing 12 weeks of paid leave if a worker has a new child or ill family member, offering universal preschool for 4 year olds, expanding the child tax credit’s value for young children, and raising pay of child care workers.
v. Elizabeth Dias discusses Trump’s proposal about promote six weeks of paid leave for birth and adoptive mothers, a tax credit for child care and a new Dependent care saving account whose balance could roll over year over year, even accounting for unborn children.
IV. Topic Sentence: Government sponsored day care may not meet all of a child’s needs.
a) Some children have special needs such as trauma, autism, or down syndrome. Most government day cares don’t have the special skills needed to teach and help these children, nor do they have the knowledge to know when a child needs help or has emotional distress.
b) Unfortunately most day care facilities are under staffed and are not properly trained to notice if there is something wrong with a child mentally, emotionally, or physically.
i. Elizabeth Dias talks about the Tweed family. “If basic cost were not overwhelming enough, their older son Nathaniel was diagnosed as being on the autism