"Her Price Is Far Above Rubies"

My heart goes out to the parents of the toddler unlawfully killed by negligent staff at her day nursery. She was but another victim of our greedy consumer-capitalism’s conscription of the mothers even of very small children into the workforce, to the immense distress of mothers and children alike. Instead of nationalising childcare, the State should pay mothers to do it. No, it might not be as much as they were making before the babies came along. But how do they imagine that they would find the time to spend the extra cash with a small child, anyway. There is more to life than money, you know. That’s why there is money at all. As we would all do very well to re-learn.