At 17:56 26-1-02 -0500, John Giorgis wrote: > >In any event, employers who help their employees with child care are to be > >commended, in my mind, since they're doing social good. It's not as if the > >childless are being denied benefits; if they had children, they'd get the > >same. You seem to be promoting the same line of thinking that has led > >childless people to try to not pay taxes that go to schools, as if they had > >received no benefit from the existence of public education. All of us are > >*somebody's* children. > >As Dan noted: I do not find it commendable when an employer provides >certain benefits to employees who have both parents work and not provide >benefits of comparable worth to those employees who choose to have one >parent stay home with children.
Child care benefits are paid because, since both parents work, they can not be with their child during the day and need someone else to take care of the child. If only one of the parents works and the other stays home to care for the child, they do not *need* someone else to care of the kid, so there is no reason to pay them for third-party child care. Compare this to receiving Unemployment Benefits or Welfare. You receive them because someone else (in this case the government) believes you need it. Once you find a job, your UB/Welfare stops because you now earn your own income and no longer need UB/Welfare. In both cases, the decision to pay (or not pay) you benefits is based on one simple question: do you need the money. If the answer is yes, then you get them; if the answer is no, then you do not get them. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
