Providing for Children November 11, 2007
I read a letter to the editor today in which Ms. Richardson puts down the UBP’s promise to open up two more government run daycares (which there is a shortage of right now), helping to subsudise the current private ones and providing breakfast for our students who sometimes goes without. I, of course had to reply.
Dear Sir,
Please allow me space in your newspaper to respond to Shirley Richardson’s letter to the editor dated Friday November 9.
Ms. Richardson must be in her own dream land. While it is true that most Bermudians take pride in being self sufficient, I’m not sure if she fully comprehends the tremendous burden that our economy places on most Bermudian families. I would happily welcome any form of break when it comes to either providing additional day care services, or by way of the government subsiding day care and reducing the overall cost to the parents; a cost which is quickly becoming as much as a second rent for most of us who struggle to provide for our children. Under the last nine years the cost of living has been going up by leaps and bounds, the family unit typically requires both parents (if applicable) to work a minimum of 8 hours which usually require day care services in return.
While it’s true that some families do little for their children, in most cases many families struggle to provide for their children; where as something like breakfast, which you may take for granted, is a real challenge for some people. I challenge Ms. Richardson to go to a few Bermudian families with small children and read her letter to the editor with the same bravado that I’m sure she displayed while typing it up.
If the Government wishes to assist with a family’s expense in providing for their children, why would you want to stop them? They will, in fact, be providing that hand up that Ms. Richardson spoke upon but somehow expertly missed the plot on.
As far as where all that extra money will come from, well I’m sure that with the change in Government all the extra money currently spent on travel and other luxury items that our current government so shamelessly enjoys at our expense will be more than enough to cover breakfast and daycare for those that need it. Anything that helps the families of Bermuda and thereby helps the children, I fully support. I would welcome Ms. Richardson to return from her own dream land and come back to the one that the rest of the parents and I call reality.
Sean Soares
Hamilton Parish
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