Why Would You Trust Your Toddler to Strangers?

For the past 40 years, Western parents have been relentlessly gaslit into blindly submitting to the most grotesque Marxist social experiment since the Great Leap Forward. At least the Chinese parents forced to surrender their newborn offspring to state-run creches had the excuse of being forced at gunpoint. Western parents were just bullied, finger-wagged and lied to.

The social experiment I’m referring to, of course, is universal childcare. This is something no human society outside the worst totalitarian regimes of the 20th century has ever foisted on its youngest children. Even the grotesquely militaristic Spartans waited until their kids were seven. Spare me the ‘it takes a village’ blather, too. Even tribal cultures never handed their children over to complete strangers from almost the moment they were born.

We could be forgiven for suspecting that the motive is the same as the Maoists: forcing women to be just another economic unit, toiling away for the revolution, while the impressionable young begin their indoctrination before they can even talk.

The Big Lie is that it’s for the benefit of both mother and child. Who really believes this? The spiralling mental illness rates for women and children tell the real story. It can’t be blamed on a general decline, either. One fifth of Western women are on mental health medications, double that of men.

The other excuse is that ‘it’s impossible to raise a family on a single income these days’. There is some truth to this, although it might be better said that it’s difficult to do so and maintain the lifestyle that Western families have been told to expect. Is it worth it? Do the big house, the two new cars, the annual holidays, mean more than healthy, happy children raised in the security of a home with a loving family dedicated to their welfare?

Australia’s most horrifically prolific paedophile, Ashley Griffith, was a childcare worker who used his position to abuse hundreds of children for nearly two decades. While Griffith is clearly the worst, he is far from the only abuser in the childcare system. More and more stories are emerging of parents discovering, to their horror, that their children are being sexually and physically abused by childcare workers.

In 2024, there were more than 26,000 incidents reported at Australian childcare centres, including children and babies being left strapped in high chairs for up to six hours a day, beaten, or force fed until they vomited. At least seven children a day missing, unaccounted for, or locked out of centres. Every year, 3,000 sent to hospital with injuries sustained in childcare.

Even when they’re not being physically and sexually abused, children are hardly treated to the sort of care a loving parent or family member would normally provide. Despite promises of ‘qualified chefs or cooks who work as part of our centre teams’, children are fed garbage food costing as little as 33 cents per meal.

Yet, so deep is the extent of the gaslighting over childcare that even those who acknowledge its horrors insist that the answer is more government, rather than walking away from the whole, flawed scam. Activists demand more government inspections of centres, despite the fact that state governments frequently let violations go unpunished, issuing warnings or notices instead. Even centres found to have seriously breached standards are allowed to keep operating.

The blunt answer is that none of it would be necessary if they hadn’t bullied families into surrendering their precious offspring to a literal nanny state.