Re:Is there a market failure in child care?
by mitchellst on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:04PM
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Yeah my first thought reading this was… does this dude have kids? Because this isn’t how the parents I know think of it, and not how I think of it.
But I also have income that gives me choices— the option I chose is “employ a full time nanny.”
Curious if he is closer to right than we are.
From personal experience and those of other parents I know, it's a heavily researched, quite intensive process involving multiple visits to different providers.
An AirBnB for long-term childcare seems like a non-starter, perhaps beyond initial discovery and shallow research.
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Also, there are so many societal benefits to affordable child care for all. For example, more primary care givers returning to work, earning and therefore paying taxes etc.