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One of the grimmer aspects of communist societies is their blunt attempts to erase the family as an impediment to the socialist utopia.
The Bolsheviks and the East Germans created a vast snitch society where ‘brave child heroes’ like ‘Pavlik’ were fêted for denouncing their own families. The Maoists and the Ceaușescus oversaw a gigantic gulag archipelago of state crèches. Chinese women were forced at gunpoint to hand over their babies to the collective, in exchange for being herded straight back into the fields and factories.
Today’s communist revolutionaries haven’t changed their hatred of the family as enemy of the state: they’ve just got sneakier. Instead of forcing mothers to hand over their children at gunpoint, they’ve gaslight them for decades into doing it voluntarily. With typical Orwellian disregard for truth they call this collectivisation of child-rearing ‘childcare’.
You will hand over your babies to the state, and you will be happy, comrades. Just ask Katy Gallagher.
Women’s Minister Katy Gallagher says the earlier children are put into childcare the better prepared they will be for school, as Labor prepares for a fight at the next election over the coalition’s plan to overhaul the early education system.
Note what Gallagher is saying between the lines: the state and an army of imported Third World ‘nannies’ are better are raising your kids than you are. With typical globalist arrogance, she’s claims the imprimatur of The Science™.
Actual evidence, on the other hand…
Labor is at odds with international experts over its stance on infants up to three years old being “better off” in childcare than with family members, while some parents have condemned the argument as “harmful” and “tone deaf”.
Even worse, Albanese seems to be taking a leaf out of his mate Keir Starmer’s book, placing protecting predators above the safety of children and the family.
The criticism follows the government rejecting a proposal for childcare providers to be given more power to terminate staff thought to be posing a risk to those in their care, amid revelations of further abuse against children in the system last month.
This, after the horrifying revelations of multiple serial child-abusers working in childcare.
The message is clear: hand your precious babies over to the state as early as possible. Decades of globalist gaslighting have pushed universal childcare as liberation for women and enrichment for kids. In reality, it’s the same collectivist blueprint used in communist regimes: China’s state crèches and Romania’s nightmare orphanages under Ceaușescu, where hundreds of thousands of children were institutionalised, neglected, abused and left traumatised. The goal? Turn parents into compliant economic units while the state moulds the next generation.
Gallagher, the classic left-wing career politician and member of Labor’s notorious “mean girls” clique, speaks from her own experience: “For me it worked.” Of course it did. Her priorities – cubicle, lanyard, status, power – are light years from most mothers who instinctively know infants need their own flesh and blood, not fluorescent-lit rooms and minimum-wage carers.
The evidence contradicts her elitist anecdote. UN child development expert Ben Perks is blunt: for infants under three, “the best thing for the child is to stay at home as long as possible”.
The quality of the parent-child bond is the strongest predictor of lifelong wellbeing and even future productivity. Studies like the NICHD Study of Early Child Care show more hours in care linked to behavioural problems. High-quality programmes can offer modest gains for disadvantaged kids later, but, for infants, parental sensitivity and attachment trump institutional care. Multiple arrangements worsen externalising behaviours. The “earlier the better” line is ideological, not scientific.
The ‘but the economy’ argument benefits the globalists, but doesn’t cut it for families. Many women report working full time just to cover skyrocketing childcare fees that have outpaced inflation and wages. The rise in one-person household families could manage on a single wage with different priorities.
Instead, we subsidise a system where kids get adjacent play and not real bonding, while mums burn out commuting to soulless offices.
Australia must reject this failed experiment. Universal childcare weakens families, inflates costs and delivers mediocre outcomes at best. The evidence favours extended parental time in the early years. Families should do everything possible to keep children out of the state’s clutches: one parent at home where feasible, family and kin care and, yes, homeschooling.
Gallagher’s vision suits her worldview. Most Australian families want something better: strong homes, attached children and real choice, not more taxpayer-funded crèches turning toddlers into economic inputs.
