others work tend to have strained relationships withtheir fathers due to their perceptive devaluation of theirfather’s worth as an adequate bread-winner. (Adele 32) Onecan conclude that males may be negatively affected whentheir mothers work, but males and, to a greater degree,females are affected in many positive ways with regards toachievement in independence and responsibility. Adequatechild care is a necessity for parents who both work. It isoften complicated to balance both the parent’s and child’sneeds when using child care. However, it may be possible tosatisfy the demands of both if forethought and prudence areapplied. Many cultures worldwide realize that a child’snurturing can be acquired from a variety of sourcesincluding both adults and older children. Children can be ascomfortable with grandparents, neighbors, professional childcare attendants, and babysitters as they are with their ownmothers. In fact, a variety of sources for nurturing notonly provide the child with a variety of role models, suchas in the case of grandparents, but it also provides themthe ability to compare these role models and to choose theappropriate characteristics which they will adopt as theirown. One third of all children are looked after byrelatives; 50% of all children in child care situations arebeing looked after by someone unrelated! to them. (Petterson533) To date, in Ontario as in all of Canada, there is noadequate government policy for child care. Funds ear markedfor this area of social assistance are eithermisappropriated or abused. Even now, in 1995, the governmentof Canada has not yet recognized the fact that children area community responsibility and that they should starttreating them as such. (Monsebraaten A1) In the end, theresponsibility of choosing the proper type of child carelies with the working parents. Proper research of the daycare facilities and employees should include aninvestigation into the availab...
