Child care providers build strong relationships with the kids they take care of, they’re hardly strangers.

One should consider the parents who would’ve never had children if they couldn’t have someone watch their child while they work, either because they had to or would prefer to work vs perform child rearing.

Should you not have children if a parent can’t be home during their early childhood years? That’s more philosophical.

That appears to be some other argument you want to make - are you claiming the roughly seventy five percent of children in the USA who do not have a stay at home parent are damaged? Is your solution to let these children drown or to pay more for the parent to stay at home or some thing else?

Did you go to high school, bn-l?

That sounds like very much a strawman argument.

Parents need to have the income to support the family. They end up putting the child in childcare and taking on extra-work or if they are fortunate to rely on family members to afford childcare.

why do you assume that it's a negative externality?