Editorial: Working families' dilemma

We've seen the stories before.

The day care center closes on short notice, forcing parents to make other plans — amid a marketplace where demand already outstrips supply.

Is anybody else connecting the dots? Isn't this the same as apartment buildings going condo?

In each case, isn't another little piece of our fundamental infrastructure — the fabric of roads and other fundamental services that allow everything to work — falling by the wayside?

Think about it. As housing gets more expensive, it compels all moms and dads to work, which cranks up the need for day care.

And then day care crumbles under the weight.

Quality of life? For whom?

Working families take another blow to the chin.

Maybe it is time for growth managers to give full, essential-service weight to day care as part of an area's strategy for coping with progress rather than allowing it to continue overwhelming us.