As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit the workforce

Re:As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit t... by cafard on Thursday November 02, 2023 @06:13AM (#38111295)

My mother did not work outside the home for the roughly ten-year span between my birth and my brother reaching school age. The communal setting, school apart, was called the neighborhood. This was the boom, so a given block could have quite a few kids on it.

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Re:As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit t... by steve1977 on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:22AM (#38114782)

Same here. Sometimes my mother would look after me and the neighbor kids, sometimes my neighbors mom would look after me and her kids and so on, for example.

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Re:As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit t... by johnnyanmac on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:36PM (#38123743)

It takes a village. But the village has lately eroded to "every family for themselves"

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Re:As child care costs soar, more parents may have to exit t... by steve1977 on Friday November 03, 2023 @05:58AM (#38126517)

I guess I'm happy to be still living in a rural area, this is not the case here.

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