That's a good question. We certainly do support cooperative child care spaces, in particular a multi-stakeholder model, where both the parents and the people who work in the child care co-ops can take some ownership of the quality of the services for child care. If parents were involved in how their child care services are run, I would argue that would have a significant impact on productivity. You wouldn't have worried parents in the workplace concerned about the quality of care their children are getting. We would certainly urge that a number of those child care spaces be cooperative child care spaces, to give some parents a voice in the care of their children.
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