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A third element in American society includes child daycare as a component of an activist social agenda, along with aid for the homeless, those without access to medical care, those living in poverty, and so forth. While the motives of this element are usually praiseworthy, they usually provide fodder for those elements opposed to child daycare because the social activists all too often attempt to dismiss the significance of funding problems associated with parts of their agenda.
There are other constituencies with significant interests in the child daycare issue. First, of course, there are the parents who must both work outside of the home and provide daycare for their children. Millions of these parents need help, and they are often more interested in obtaining some relief than they are in the often arcane policy arguments swirling around the issue. Second, there is American business. Most businesses in the 1990s are dependent on female workers. To retain skilled mothers as workers, business
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