This is the goal set for 2010 in Spain, to ensure that 33% of children up to 3 years have the possibility of entering a daycare center.
Currently only 20% of children You can access them and these new places are part of an electoral promise of the PSOE in a plan called Educa3 2008-2012.
For this, a total of 1,087 million euros will be invested. The plan comes to cover what the minister of education has defined as “A great social demand” in order to improve "The reconciliation of family and work and the access of many women to the labor market".
My question is this: This is the way? I am not an economist, I do not know what can be done with 1,087 million euros, but I am disappointed to see that they are invested in increasing and increasing the nursery places (and what remains, because they will only reach a measly 33%) when I I would like this money to be invested in at least 33% of mothers with a more decent maternity leave of 6 months, for example, in order to give the 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding recommended by WHO and that few babies receive or put to order 9 months as in Iceland.
And look, since we're asking 12, right? The pity is that we are in the tail of Europe in almost everything, and this could not be less.
The health of our babies and their happiness depend on how they grow and how we raise them. And they will forgive me, but a baby who since 3 and a half months is in a nursery 8 hours a day (sometimes more and sometimes less) is losing many hours of love and maternal (or paternal) contact.
The criticism is not to the mothers and fathers since if there is no other possibility the nursery is a good resource. What would have to change is the system, which is forgetting about children and their well-being. Although it is also true that while the social demand, as the minister says, is to increase the nursery places and not to increase maternity leave, little will change the system.
