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TheReader
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The OP is correct. Based on Shulchan Oruch E”H 22:4 one is not even permitted to give a child to a non-jew even to teach him a profession [reasons: chashad of killing, teaching meenus, a.o.] – never mind having the non-jew take care of the child all day.

On a related issue, if the care is done in the Jew’s house, the keilim might need tevila [and perhaps even kashering].

jewishfeminist02 – we live by halacho, and not ‘our feelings.’