Lies, damned lies, and statistics on childcare
THEY’RE a “waste of human capital” in the words of the OECD. They’re wasting their education. They’re wasting our resources. They’re wasting our time.
The eradication of the stay-home parent is not happening as quickly as we’d hoped, however. The Quarterly National Survey for July to September of last year has just been published and while it shows a drop in the number of children being cared for at home by a parent as against the figure for 2007 it’s only 5%.
