Reply #48: Daycare is about children's safety, not "your body". [View All]

[wickerwoman]

You don't have a right to leave your preschool aged child unsupervised even though its' "your child", nor do you have the right to leave them in an unsafe situation, such as in a group childcare situation where one person is "watching" fifteen or twenty very young children by themselves.

There are very strict guidelines on the ratio of small children to adults broken down by children's ages in force for day cares and they should also apply to other situations regardless of whether the caregiver is accepting money because it's critical to each child's safety. I'll bet anything that this is about the number of children she is supervising, or her age and health, or the environment that the kids are in.

The last thing Child Protective Services wants is to exponentially increase their caseload by going after babysitters. But if, say, the Duggars hired one babysitter for their 18 kids, including six or seven kids under six, then I think it would be reasonable for the state to assess whether or not the kids were being adequately supervised.