Maybe it's because my childhood memories filled with a constant happiness. Or childhood has became the best several years in my life ever. I never really move on. I love everything related to kids. I love wandering around in toys r us, kids station, or toys kingdom. I love cartoon network more than fox or e!. I love being around dozens kids and listening them laughing for unnecessary things, mumbling their imagination or their ordinary daily routine. My heart could automatically warm seeing that tiny little dress, or tiny little shoes.
I never realized that I have never really move on before. Until my volunteer work, which I've been enjoy participating this past six months, have a strong connection with children. Until my own thesis-which as a political science student we usually bring a serious matter-is related to children. Too bad. I never really move on.
This I write after a long surfs for my reading course, the first path to get my thesis done. Though I haven't decided the exact country yet, but the theme that I chose has stealing my attention ever since. In third world country, including ours, this isn't a primary issue, not even a political matters yet. But we should think forward, shouldn't we? I mean, we (third world creepy countries) gotta do some great leaps to rise.
I'm interested in a child care policy. To learn from the best, yes it's in a Scandinavian countries. Child care is a super humble and modest concept. To narrow it down, I specifically want to explore about day care. Remember in Toys Story 3 when the toys are mistakenly delivered to a day care center? Yes, that's what I mean, a day care day care. Place where the kids are stay when their parents work. At the noon, their parents pick them up to the home.
What so special about that? Parenthood, people, is somehow intervened by state. That haven't been occurred yet here in our country. We know better that woman, who accused as a citizen of the carer, seemingly have no choice in raising their child or being a wage earner. With this concept, state simply facilitate woman to enter the workforce by providing a child care. So they could become a part of it without ignoring the needs of their children. In addition, with the provision and subsidiary from the state, quality of child care has been proven bring a good result for the children. Norway, with its child care policy, has became a country with the best quality of children well being hand in hand with its equality among man and woman employment. 'Child Care Is A Right' has been internalized in citizen's mind as well.
Historically speaking, far beyond the idea of equality of man and woman in labor force, to arrive in this situation it takes a long and harsh debate among the feminist scholars to break a paradigm in this patriarchal society. Scandinavian countries has conquered it first among all the countries, that way, engendering politics become one of their strongest political image. Engendering is such a verb, means taking into consideration the gender matter, in the name of avoid discrimination, in every policy or procedure that government takes.
Yeah.
That will be my thesis' theme which I will explore deeper and deeper in the next one year. I love it when I typed 'national child care policy' in youtube then appeared faces of cute kids and lovely day care along with political debates.
Wish me luck, please?
