A Story today from CBC:

Many day-care centres are closed in B.C. Tuesday, as child-care providers hold rallies across the province to protest provincial government funding cuts.

The biggest protest is planned for the lawn on the legislature, which will draw protesters from the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, but protests are also being staged in smaller communities.

Deb Jarvis, who is organizing the protest in Nelson, said the message will be the same across B.C.

"I think what happens in the Queen Charlotte Islands, what happens in Vancouver, what happens in Nelson may look very different, but we are all in agreement that something needs to be done," she told CBC News.

"If we don't indeed fix the system, and stabilize and maintain what we have, we'll see a huge impact down the road, not only economically, but in these children that don't have good service. Because we're hitting the most vulnerable."

The province is cutting child-care subsidies by about $40 per child, per month. It's also cutting funding to child-care resource and referral centres.

The provincial government says the protesters should blame Ottawa for cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from child-care funding last year. But child-care advocates insist there's more than enough money in the provincial surplus to make up the cuts.

I think re-examining the way we look at child care is imminent. What about assisting families who want to have one parent at home to look after their child(ren)? Where is the incentives to return to the family values that many of us were raised with? How about more assistance for parents to look after their own children? Why do we lobby for  daycare funding - when really - we should be examining how we can assist families to have more parental care in the home.

Thoughts?