OR, to put it another way, college costs as much as day care.

News reports this week broadcast the supposedly shocking similarity between tuition at public universities and a year of day care. The implication was that caring for a baby or toddler should be cheap, as cheap perhaps as parking a car. The news stories did not mention, of course, that the high demand for day care has been manufactured by relatively new cultural norms or that day care is inferior to the age-old organic form of childrearing.

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