What's with the apparent dumbing down in society? Just a thought that popped up.

Doesn't take a Ph.D. to know, that preschool children need lots of time to play, to imagine, to try this and that, in order for their brains to develop properly.  For young brains to form those neuron connections - in order to grow as individuals (uhm, like God intended) kids need lots of unstructured hours - and hey, before too long, they'll have plenty of time to be stuck running the rat race.  Anyway, those very precious unstructured hours aren't going to happen at the daycare center.  Shut in among too many other kids, and too few (and horrendously underpaid) daycare workers.

Back in the 80s, people were asking, what will become of these young prisoners?  People were speculating that these locked away two-yearolds would, in later years, lack typical problem-solving skills - ya know, like not having a complete melt-down.. because the mickey-ds happens to be out of avocado shakes.

Well, those questions have been getting answers - and the scenes being caused are not pretty.  

But that's only half of it - if that.  Moms have to work.  And as for the ongoing bs about buying the later model ranger...i.e., reliable transportation.  What? Is it wise to pack your kids in a dented '95 econo-can?  Sadly, but realistically, smart moms work; smart moms maintain a plan b, because plan a is known to eventually experience a mid-life crises - or whatever new term is now used to describe such naval gazing :/  Even if plan b doesn't move in with his playmate-of-the-season, too many of these guys don't think enough of their families to provide emergency funds (savings, life insurance).  Oh, heavenly days no, the bass-boat, the super wide-screen, the "sporting" trips are way more important.

Women are waking up.  Too bad the kids are ending up warehouses.  But what's worse?  A few hours in daycare, or years of nagging poverty?  If anything effs up a kid, it's so definitely the later - even if the kid somehow gets out of that grind, the very real trauma of poverty will likely haunt that individual for a lifetime - like a slimey demon.