http://www.insurancedaily.co.uk/2010/03/12/4-week-wait-for-sick-mothers-payout/ Daily Insurance Industry News Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:27:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.insurancedaily.co.uk/2010/03/12/4-week-wait-for-sick-mothers-payout/#comment-12626 Beverley Smith Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:17:47 +0000 http://www.insurancedaily.co.uk/?p=7006#comment-12626 There is something very troubling here in the irony that taking care of a child is considered a social good worth government funding if the child is tended by a 3rd party childcare worker, but it is deemed a personal hobby if the child is tended at home. The funding when mom is sick is not a problem if the child already gets free care by government. Taxpayers already foot the bill. The problem is then a triple penalty for parents at home. First, they don't get the funding moms who work outside the home get. Second, because their families pay tax, they end up paying for the childcare of someone else but the funds won't go to their own kids. Third, if they want to have a rainy day fund for if mom gets sick, they have to pay for it out of pocket. All along the way we see anti-women bias. Yes insurance companies are nice to help but they make a lot of money off this kindness. It would be much less of an insult to women's care roles if government funded all care of children, per child, wherever the child was. Value the care role. It's real work and it values society. There is something very troubling here in the irony that taking care of a child is considered a social good worth government funding if the child is tended by a 3rd party childcare worker, but it is deemed a personal hobby if the child is tended at home. The funding when mom is sick is not a problem if the child already gets free care by government. Taxpayers already foot the bill. The problem is then a triple penalty for parents at home. First, they don’t get the funding moms who work outside the home get. Second, because their families pay tax, they end up paying for the childcare of someone else but the funds won’t go to their own kids. Third, if they want to have a rainy day fund for if mom gets sick, they have to pay for it out of pocket.
All along the way we see anti-women bias. Yes insurance companies are nice to help but they make a lot of money off this kindness. It would be much less of an insult to women’s care roles if government funded all care of children, per child, wherever the child was. Value the care role. It’s real work and it values society.

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