It’s actually a Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex. Our misunderstanding of its dysfunction is the secret to its success, as well as our failure.
In Japan, we pay $200/month for government subsidized nursery school. It's well run and staffed with licensed caretakers. Lunch included. I paid $900/mo. in the US.
I was a full-time teacher at a private school earning $18k annually back in the late 80s with two baby girls. The school dedicated one room as a nursery and five other teachers also with infants pooled our money to hire a nanny. Yes, I am sure this was not a licensed situation, but I saw my girls on breaks and knew they were well-cared for. My questions are: how many of the big employers (Walmart, Home Depot, FedEx, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, etc.) have this kind of setup for their employees? And how many day care centers in the US are large operations being run like senior care and assisted living providing bottom dollar care with usurious price tags?
Community child care goes back thousands of years. I wonder about it again in a corporation. Will employees without children demand compensation for not using the resource? Insurance, liability, staffing. I had a group of neighboring mothers and we traded the gaggle of children with each other on our days off. It worked well for us all, we've remained friends all these years, it was very bonding and we keep up with the kids we helped raise. that was 40 years ago.
@@eckankar7756 You've hit on something that a lot of people tend to ignore and that's the concept behind a common good vs "rugged individualism". It's mindboggling just how so many people/corporate overlords have bought into thinking that they are where they are without acknowledging the human and physical resources that supported their rise or helped them out.
We, as women need to start brainstorming, if we want our independence. What you women did with the nanny was a great idea. I also would like to see woman do these kinds of profidership inplace of 'abortion'.
@@katherineperkinsschaller357 Your comment hits on the exact problem at the root of this tragedy of American culture: that it falls to the individual to fix what our society has broken and continues to undervalue (+) devalue. Please read and think about the comment above on "rugged individuaism". What France seems to understand, and which is completely lost on too many Americans, is that the well-being and development of HUMAN capital is essential to continue to operate a capitalist economy. You cannot wear away your "raw materials" to nubs as we do in the U.S., and think that "greatness" can be sustained in that way, with injections of cheap foreign labour. Think of who that system benefits, and why.
The same people saying, "Don't have kids if you can't afford them" are complaining about how many young people are choosing to not have children...because they can't afford them.
@clandestine2178 wrong, that's NOT what's it's about. It's the 21st C, not the 1950s. It's an INVESTMENT in children, who fare much better in life (with a lot of evidence and data to prove it) with high quality early childhood education. It benefits ALL Americans not just people with kids. More women can stay in the workplace. Better for EVERYONE Are you even listening to this story? It's explained whu it's unacceptably unaffordable
FYI in Québec, Canada we have had for a long time a provincial daycare program that is now at $CND 8.50/Day (approximately $US 6.75/ Day). The Federal government will now subsidize a similar program all over the country. These additional contributions from the federal government will most certainly lower even more the costs here in Québec. This programs is easily paid back by the increase in, workforce availability, productivity and profitability for the employers. It goes without saying that there is an improvement of the workforce standard of living, quality of life and motivation. EVERYBODY WINS !
Canada does many many things way better than the USA. As an american who lived there for over 20 years, I give Canada great credit for the numerous things they do so much better than the USA.
Except children. The studies have been consistent in showing negative outcomes thanks to universal daycare. Oh, and don't forget mothers who raise their own children who have to subsidize this "8.50 a day" childcare.
@@sylvainmichaud2262 sure. “The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program” By Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber, and Kevin Milligan. Even the biased media reporting on the study didn’t refute anything it said.
I lived in France for 20 years. When I found out how they treated pregnant women and then followed up supporting breast-feeding women, I thought my colleagues were lying to me. I could not believe that I will get two months paid leave and then another 6 to 8 months paid leave for breast-feeding. This was back in 1989 and 1990; I had two children back to back. My friend who was a teacher in New York at the same time was also having a child. She got no days off, no pay, no support. I found that to be sheer deprivation.
Lack of childcare in the US is by design and not a flaw of the system. If you make childcare extremely expensive for most, the inevitable result is that the parent who earns less (typically women) will need to stay home and take care of the kid. If you have multiple kids, this cycle continues and the women take on this responsibility. The intent here is actually quite clear and nefarious: to keep women down and keep them at home. You can’t achieve this medieval vision if childcare is free
There will never be subsidized childcare in a country in which the religious right insists that women should be caring for their own children at home. Never. Do not have kids that need care outside your home if you don't think you can manage this, because there will be no meaningful help for you from the government. Or earn such a high salary that you can afford it.
A wider perspective on this matter is about demographics and economics. Current US fertility rate is 1.78 which is well below population replacement. With stagnant average wage rates, two income families are the norm, not the exception. Supporting women of child bearing age to work outside the home as well as raise more than 1 child is an economic imperative if the US to continue to be economically viable.
There needs to be a real separation of church and state in the US. Nothing will change without it. I was required to take US History for my M Ed degree. I had never heard of the Great Awakening (I think it was called). In fact, there were two such religious movements in US early history. They shed light on the current evangelical stranglehold on domestic life.
Everyone wants a 'living wage' now, it's going to get tighter for day care. It's driven by the passion of the workers, but at the end of the day, they need to pay their bills, too. I provide care in the home for a 2 year old on a ventilator with tube feedings, the family's insurance pay my wages. I am an RN with 40 years ICU/ER experience, I make $25. an hour which is $4. an hour more than my grandson who flips burgers and cooks fries at In and Out Burger.
I did too and got a valedictorian and summa cum laude at the end, that I wouldn't have, if they were instead in daycare. Maybe someday I'll get dumped at a better nursing home than I would have otherwise.
If a family is not tight in money, mothers or fathers, specially mothers (they are natural nurturers) need to stay home and take care of the children until they are 18 years old. That would solve all child care problems and have a happy family dynamic and may end divorces too.
My husband wanted me to put my kid in a daycare and get a job. He wanted me to get a job at Subway because it was near my home. Kindercare was also near our home. It cost more than Subway paid. So I got to stay home and raise my own child and frankly being able to raise your own child is the best. But free childcare would be a lifesaver for a lot of people. I didn't see a plus in letting someone else raise my kid for no money, but if I had the choice to work even part time and being able to be with my kids most of the time I would be happy. Part time I might be cool with.
He is an idiot, you are not and your child won't be either. You made the best choice, based on my personal experience and those years with them were priceless. I would trade all my possessions to be able to shrink them down to 6 months old and do it again.
US is totally dysfunction here --- 1st off please remind you why don't you guys have paid maternity leave ? Every single rich nation in the world has this (and most poor ones too My country India has 6 months now). Also too many regulations are choking availability of local child care. Yet, NO ONE will bell this cat. It suits large employers and that's that as far as the great economic power US is concerned. Women are just choosing to have less or no kids and this will continue resulting in a HUGE ageing population issue in a few decades.......good for you.
The thing is all those countries pay a lot more in taxes. But this country people always want lower or no taxes. We expect everyone to do it on their own. This is a rough country.
20 years ago I went to community college and there is the only affordable child I could get. My son loved it and it was a wonderful day care, pre-K, kindergarten for college students.
Caretakers agree making minimum wage, while no one can afford to pay for childcare. Like so many other ad hoc 'you're on your own' systems that we have, this one is failing, and it's doesn't have to be this way. Other countries make it possible to have children, and care for them without going broke. Not no mention how my German colleagues at the same company can get about 6 months of PPL.
If you can't afford children don't have them. Why should the government pay to watch your kids, it was a choice you decided. I formed a group of other mothers and we took turns watching each other's kids as we worked when I was a young single mom with two babies. Now I'm a retired RN. I do in house child care for a toddler that is on a ventilator and requiring tube feedings. Mom and Dad care for the child but I work an 8 hour shift 5 days a week while they work. I donate a lot of over time for free as travel to and from work for the parents takes time. I make $25. an hour which is half my usual pay, but it's one cute boy, one ventilator so what's not to love. The parents insurance plan pays my wages.
You of all people should understand the potentially massive cost of childcare. What parent anticipates having a child with a severe condition requiring skilled medical care such as the child you care for? Your half-rate of $25/ hour is 77% of the median household income in the US. The child you care for is lucky that their parents’ insurance covers it. The cost of this care alone would bankrupt the average family. Who could possibly anticipate that? The simple answer to your question is this: governments and therefore taxpayers (in many countries, not the US) subsidize things like childcare because there is a basic recognition that the country as a whole is stronger if parents can participate in the work force, if families aren’t forced to decide between childcare and rent, and if young children have safe places to be while their parents work. I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people.
@@hmcmail57 the level of narcissism and lack of empathy…. Just because they lived a golden egg existence and never had some child with such conditions that only millionaires could afford but goes with the American right wing territory all a bunch of embarrassed pseudo millionaires living with Aires of importance
@@hmcmail57 Vast majority of children do not have special needs. It's irresponsible to have unprotected sex, producing children unplanned that parents can't afford to or are willing to provide for. I worked for 20 years in the ER caring for women who were pregnant with 3-4 or more children in tow, no husband, unknown fathers of the brood all paid for by tax dollars. Unfortunately our bodies are made to continue the species by having the reproduction center with the pleasure center. It works in nature but now that the planet is massively over populated children continue to be created with no plan at all how the parents are to afford or raise them. We're going to see some big changes, something has to give. The right to reproduce without consequences or responsibility is going to create a political intervention someday, not right away, but maybe in the lifetime of the next generation. If parents want a child it needs to be a factor planned out how to afford the care but that seems to be an afterthought once the child is already born. I waited till I was 30 to have children, we dated for 3 years, married, had careers in place, home purchased with good downpayment then planned our family. I think we were in the 1% of parents with a plan. Whiners want the government to step in and correct their mistakes and failure to plan or willingness to provide for their own.
You have a seriously sweet deal. I am a therapist doing home care for the same population. I am paying for you through the insurance industry's ability to pass costs on. So when you love your easy job, just remember that I am out there working to pay for it.
@@eckankar7756 considering your political group is also backing removing abortion the something has to give will not happen. They will just remove all government assistance except for corporations that only work to streamline and push jobs abroad. Creating more of the condition you dislike. Most of those women weren’t provided full education on contraceptives nor were they provided Much of it. The ones that truly can’t afford kids can’t afford health insurance. And a great many are also religious and thus are brainwashed into going against contraceptives. And if they are millennials there’s a big and I mean a huge incentive in social media to push against the pill and push for rhythm method.
My husband & I decided I would quit my job when I was pregnant with our second & then I got pregnant with our 3rd when he was 9 months so now I've been a stay at home mom for a little over two years & I've been so happy & so grateful watching my babies grow 💕
what a stupid thing to say and then this lady repeat...you can love kids and be passionate as a child care worker and still need to pay your bills and make a liveable wage, it is unacceptable how little the actual workers make
I think men in power feel that childcare is a woman's problem. And woman do not have the power to change policy, law then enforce these rules. The children suffer when women are not in power or making a living wage. Compassion, transparency, integrity and accountability for all!
Men in power generally have lots of money and have no problem affording child care. It would be tough for them to relate to being financially burdened by child care. Child care problem solved! Just be rich!
Families need to be able to live off of one income. It’s absolutely abusive to force a new mother to work postpartum while breastfeeding. I will never have a child with a man who cannot provide so I can raise my children at home
Years ago I had Spanish friends, with a lot of children. When the fruit season came, all the women went to work in the cannery and others cared for the children. I do not know the compensation or how the woman worked out certain responsibilities but I knew year after year the system worked.
I see this same phenomenon in the African American community as well. Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles, the retired able, all had to step up to provide childcare for those who needed an affordable option. Paying thousands of dollars per month just is not an option for people in the minimal way bracket or single parents.
The way to fix the daycare problem is to make it financially and socially attractive for mothers to stay home with their children for the first 5 years of their lives. This is what children need and want....why can't we do what's best for the children and reduce the tax burden on society at the same time?
Any region CONservative-controlled will never invest in anything that benefits women and children, especially anything that improves their autonomy, quality of life, or general well-being. Only federally mandated, controlled, and supervised measures will ever benefit women and children in those areas. Poverty is the primary tool used to maintain power in CONservative areas, so they have ZERO intention of eradicating it.
@Lordeverfall100 We've all seen the CONservatives who believe themselves a “stable mental genius” despite all evidence to the contrary. Sweeping your ever shortfalls under the rug only hides them from your delusional selves.
@@hedgefundphil * All * the * worst * m$ss shooters and dome$tic terro*ri$ts come from CONservative traditionally violent patriarchy homes, as do most of the domestic and sexual assaulters, rapists, and murderers.
@@hedgefundphil SINCE THE DAWN OF HUMANITY, Lying CONservative patriarchy traditionally sweep all their violence and sins under the rug, pretend they don't exist and ignore it all - like #GymJordan did for those athletes who were abused by their own team's leaders.
Why should I pay for someone to watch your kids? Is it too much to expect people to raise their own kids? How does it make sense to outsource babysitting so you can work a job making less than the child care costs?
That's just like me saying, when you grow old no one should be expect to be paid to take care of you or your aging parents because it not their responsibility to baby other people's parent. Dont worry, Our low birth rate is already gonna make this a reality.
The bill offers subsidies to towns, counties and cities where the state doesn’t opt in. Our military Child Development Centers (CDC) are phenomenal and have a great program for training and accountability of care givers. They have a well established and historically praised system; even the infrastructure sets the bar states could aim for.
I take care of my daughter's three daughters. Three or four days a week. I wonder how much that would be worth if they had to pay someone. I've been doing it for 10 years, and I'll probably do it 10 more years until the youngest doesn't need supervision.
@Bal Rex That's a stupid comment. If you ask my daughter, she would say it's priceless. It also has a market value. And obviously, I don't charge her. Because yes, they're my family.
That's very sad but most states are completely broke and can't afford more than 20% reimbursements for childcare. Illinois, for instance, has $25 billion in its general cash account along with $270 billion debts and unfunded pension liabilities on its balance sheet. All states and cities post their CAFR's online and you can find out how much money they have to spend on childcare (usually zero). Don't even think about asking the feds to subsidize child care. The national debt is already $900,000 per taxpayer.
Iheard a radio show talking about childcare in Quebec: subsidising the cost to $10day. Results: more families having more kids more women at work and more jobs for child related jobs. Who loses?
This policy of no childcare is one of the most effective ways to keep women at home. Reduce women’s participation in the workforce and lowers their wages. It’s really effective at keeping people from becoming middle class. This is the heart of conservatism’s.
An electric assembly line worker told me that she used to bring her children to work and they stayed in her car because there was no other place for them.
Nordic countries have great child care, too, from even before the baby arrives. Also, France does not have charter schools. "Because that would not be democratic."
If both parents want to or need to work their childcare should definitely be subsidized, but instead Billionaires consume all the wealth and pay virtually no taxes. I do think you change society when a child is raised by workers rather then parents. It is a form of disinvestment or put it a less damming way it’s a trade off. But economic realities do push people out into the workforce unless parents work different hours and then you sacrifice the relationship time. With tax breaks and better income for working middle and lower income people this wouldn’t be such a crushing issue.
The best child care is, when one of the parents stays home with the child. Why have a child if you are going to have someone else take care of it? I know, sometimes the child is not planned and you are struggling financially, then, the goverment should pay for you to stay home with your child or at least pay for your childcare costs.
I agree with one exception: high-quality daycare (EXTREMELY RARE AND COSTLY) is the key. In many instances, high-quality daycare is better for children versus staying at home with their parents. High-quality daycare requires one trained and licensed adult for every 2 children. These adults understand brain development and the know-how to teach/guide children for the best outcomes. My fear is that we'll go down a daycare warehouse road where kids will be in cramped, crowded, loud, chaotic, spaces where they'll develop aggressive and anxious behaviors.
Because we don’t want to be dependent on husbandsthat then leave us for the younger piece of meat. Thus women enter the work world and at least work part time. To feel that they have some leverage and a plan b.
@@richardpirovano then you are a very confident man. A lot of guys fear leaving their jobs even for six months. I am actually all in favor for maternity and paternity leave. In fact I worked in an old company that gave both for 3 months (and in the Us) though I’m sure it will change post Covid since it was one of the ones impacted by loss of revenue throughout the year (and loss of operations). I saw a few managers that took their paternity leave and were happy about it.
Go back in time to the 50s and examine the roles and influence of the original members of the Club of Rome. They were convinced that there are too many poor people, that brown people have more children, that the world's poor populations would invade and destroy the US. Children therefore should be treated as being of negative worth; an optional luxury for financially affluent people. The answer was simple, make having children an expensive burden. Discourage immigration. Make aid programs conditional on third world countries reducing their birth rates. Refuse to provide working conditions suitable to families. Refuse to provide day care, sick leave, maternity leave. Make benefits contingent on not including insurance for births, child care, (but covering abortions). The Club of Rome had members strong influence on every institution politically active at the time, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
I have one comment, China graduates 5 million science, technology, engineering and mathematics degrees per year. The government provides students with help as an investment in the future. Meanwhile the US is cannibalizing itself...
More money taken from parents' pockets: Twice a year portraits. Caps and gowns, and portraits for preschool graduation. Fees for enrichment activities, like dance, sports, etc.
This still.doesny explain how childcare workers are making so little money when parebts are paying $1500 and up per month. She says labor is the main Expense, but no one is paying the labor soooo.....
If someone can't make enough working to pay for child care, why are you working? And why would you expect everyone to pay for you to have it? I get the point of my taxes paying for schools, as an educated population has societal benefits. Letting someone (a parent) have something they can't afford (a job that doesn't pay much), I'm not sure about that.
How do you solve it? Go home, and raise your own kids. Feminism is a first world luxury good. Men and women are not equal. You gotta choose. If you're gonna get married and have kids, don't go to college. If you want a career, don't marry, and don't have kids. If you aren't going to form a family, don't marry in the first place. Otherwise, the kids suffer. Then when they grow up, the social costs of day care make us all suffer. And quit using grandparents as subsidized long term babysitting. Yes, men don't have to make that choice, and it's not fair. Nobody cares. Stuff it, and deal with reality.
There is a growing number of men out there who are now saying, “Sounds good to me. Women should be staying home to care for these kids.” A sad reality that you see in the media more and more.
These are the same men who scream bloody murder if the relationship fails and they have to pay child support, because their partner didn't get a career that could support the kids
Bring back traditional families problem solved. Live within your means women stay home with your kids encourage the husband. Or have strangers watch your kids and complain to the government because he’s your daddy.
Remember when pretty trump said she was going to help the people by making child care a tax deduct? So...if you have a home and you itemize you taxes, and you already paid for childcare...you get money back!!!! Thanks! I hope some day to be in that situation. I keep playing Powerball.
Same problem in France. They pay people 11 euros per hour and you need a degree to work in childcare. More than half of your income is eaten by the taxes. This is why you have yellow vests protests. It doesn't work.
I taught school for 35 years watch the transition From tapping a child On the hand 4 misbehaving .Without a little punishment , The students are totally out of control
This will certainly make me a massively disliked person: The way nature intended it, was certainly as the job and duty of the mother, and mothers helping each other.
Why shouldn't we pay more for childcare? The recipients are vulnerable and can't speak or act in their own defense. The practitioners should be held to very high standards of accountability. College students pick and choose their own classes and instructors. They don't need to be sheltered like children do. And they can usually manage to defend themselves against the rest of the students and staff.
🤚Nope, You need to plan and plan again and figure out YOUR child care cost and plan and STOP trying to rob other Taxpayers for your Negligent Choices 🇺🇲FJB - Let's Go Brandon.
5:00 so, she lives in NY and doesn't know whether she's spending $2k or $3k a month on childcare? Hmmm... Can we get back to not having kids unless you can actually afford them? As a single woman, I have not ever been able to afford kids, hence the decision to not have them. When I look at my paychecks, I am paying for your kids to exist. Stop having kids you can't afford in the first place.
I remember a time when the mother took care of her children. The failure is we’ve been duped into making it necessary to have two incomes to make it. We need to find our way back. The most important job in the world is “mother”.
Having children is a choice. If you can't afford children - be responsible and don't have them. It's not right to choose to do something and then expect others who have been responsible to pick up the tab.
Julien. You it is 2 ways street, when you grow old, you better not expect to have other people take care of you to as well. Why should I pay for someone else parent.
Life circumstances change as vicissitudes settle upon some people. Hopefully you never get injured, sick, widowed or in any other way, get fiscally challenged, because eating your words will leave a bitter taste.
In the long term, that's going to be more expensive for society - South Korea, Japan and China are in that situation, and you know what? People are choosing not to have children - the birth rate in South Korea is 0.85 children per woman. In the next 100 years, the populations of those countries are expected to half and a smaller working age population is going to have to support an ever larger elderly population. Governments and society at large will have to pick up the tab anyway, just caring for old people for 20+ years instead of babies for 2. Thinking about everything in terms of individual choice neglects the bigger picture.
That sounds good. So why are lots of states making it harder for women to make that choice? Lots of states are refusing to teach teens about these costs, the value and use of contraception, and are banning abortion. It's a big lapse in personal responsibility, that they project onto pregnant women and girls with statements like yours.
@@波紋小石 agree! They want you to not have kids but then don’t want contraceptives and are doing a social media campaign to get millennials and younger crowds to drop the pill and go for rhythm which doesn’t work. Meanwhile again citing only rich people can afford children. Because bottom line to afford a child even if they are born with a disability or disease is only going to be a rich person.
Good idea. Let's protect Roe vs. Wade so accidents don't lead to this. And maybe men should get vasectomy procedures so they don't contribute to the problem!
If mothers were being dutiful to their calling, there would not be a child care problem. They should be at home rearing their offspring. They control the decision to have children and should be held responsible for their decisions just as men are.
Because they are women they should be the ones at home? Oh yeah because in general men can't be trusted to keep toddlers alive? Geez, you have a really poor opinion of men..
I have no sympathy for people that look for others to raise their kids. Switch shifts if you have to, unless of course we’re talking about single moms. In that case, stop reproducing randomly and actually get knocked up by someone that’ll stick around. One of you work days, the other work afternoons. All of the young people committing crimes or living with their parents into their 40’s and entitlement has a lot to do with parents not wanting to do the job. Nobody in my family uses daycare’s, not only have they been exposed for neglect on many occasions but YOU should be raising YOUR kids. Lazy and worthless wannabe parents.
People living in multi generational homes helping each other is not the same as living a life of crime....very odd you'd equate these things. You do know that for the majority of history people lived in multi generational homes, right? Everyone living in their own little nuclear unit was a marketing thing created in the 1950s. It's not even natural and certainly doesn't go back further than the 1930s ..
@@michah321 you do know multi generational homes aren’t daycares right? A family is much different than relying on strangers to do your job for you. Save your feelings for someone that values then, having kids is a responsibility so be responsible.
@@mike223reloader I don't understand what you're even saying. You seen to agree there's a benefit to multigenerational homes it's how kids were cared for since the dawn of time. Are you sure we aren't agreeing?
@@michah321 about multi generational homes, yes I completely agree. I was raised by my grandparents, aunts and uncles. I disagree with people using daycares, giving your kids to strangers is a bad idea. Regardless of what they claim their jobs are.
@@mike223reloader I think it's like anything, I know people who had amazing experiences in daycare and horrible experience with family as you can imagine. Maybe the best thing is to have different options for different people. I know a guy who ended up with custody of two little girls, one was a toddler. The daycare was a Godsend and the staff was wonderful. I'm just saying I think being locked into specific options is like ridgid fashion rules.. high rise jeans aren't for everyone despite what the magazines say and low rise jeans weren't good for everyone despite what magazine said twn years ago.
We always have money for wars. For an out of control military industrial complex. For billion dollar sports arenas which sit idle 80% of the time.
Who manages the money?
It’s actually a Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex.
Our misunderstanding of its dysfunction is the secret to its success, as well as our failure.
@@fishtolizard3930 who decides why the money goes that way?
@@pilotmemes Congress
@@gabbylaughs0574 We're doomed
In Japan, we pay $200/month for government subsidized nursery school. It's well run and staffed with licensed caretakers. Lunch included. I paid $900/mo. in the US.
Two years ago one of my children were paying about $1,600 per month for childcare.
I was a full-time teacher at a private school earning $18k annually back in the late 80s with two baby girls. The school dedicated one room as a nursery and five other teachers also with infants pooled our money to hire a nanny. Yes, I am sure this was not a licensed situation, but I saw my girls on breaks and knew they were well-cared for. My questions are: how many of the big employers (Walmart, Home Depot, FedEx, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, etc.) have this kind of setup for their employees? And how many day care centers in the US are large operations being run like senior care and assisted living providing bottom dollar care with usurious price tags?
Community child care goes back thousands of years. I wonder about it again in a corporation. Will employees without children demand compensation for not using the resource? Insurance, liability, staffing.
I had a group of neighboring mothers and we traded the gaggle of children with each other on our days off. It worked well for us all, we've remained friends all these years, it was very bonding and we keep up with the kids we helped raise. that was 40 years ago.
@@eckankar7756 You've hit on something that a lot of people tend to ignore and that's the concept behind a common good vs "rugged individualism". It's mindboggling just how so many people/corporate overlords have bought into thinking that they are where they are without acknowledging the human and physical resources that supported their rise or helped them out.
We, as women need to start brainstorming, if we want our independence. What you women did with the nanny was a great idea. I also would like to see woman do these kinds of profidership inplace of 'abortion'.
@@katherineperkinsschaller357 Your comment hits on the exact problem at the root of this tragedy of American culture: that it falls to the individual to fix what our society has broken and continues to undervalue (+) devalue. Please read and think about the comment above on "rugged individuaism". What France seems to understand, and which is completely lost on too many Americans, is that the well-being and development of HUMAN capital is essential to continue to operate a capitalist economy. You cannot wear away your "raw materials" to nubs as we do in the U.S., and think that "greatness" can be sustained in that way, with injections of cheap foreign labour. Think of who that system benefits, and why.
None of them. I mean they don't even consider paying a living wage
Another reason why young people today don’t want to have children, and I don’t blame them.
And yet another illustration of how grossly imbalanced and dysfunctional our country continues to be.
The same people saying, "Don't have kids if you can't afford them" are complaining about how many young people are choosing to not have children...because they can't afford them.
They also want to control women's bodies and force them to have babies that they don't want.
A reminder Trump did not one think to help parents and their children. And now Republicans want to control Women's bodies!
I know, apparently that particular demographic has no need for internal continuity or logic...
We all have a stake in ensuring our future by ensuring that all children and parents can afford accessible, quality child care.
Thanks for weighing in.
Great interview and good information. Kudos to Amanpour for covering this topic.
@clandestine2178 wrong, that's NOT what's it's about. It's the 21st C, not the 1950s. It's an INVESTMENT in children, who fare much better in life (with a lot of evidence and data to prove it) with high quality early childhood education. It benefits ALL Americans not just people with kids. More women can stay in the workplace. Better for EVERYONE
Are you even listening to this story? It's explained whu it's unacceptably unaffordable
@clandestine2178 and then they snivel because they can’t find any workers.
@@JoTracy It does not benefit all Americans, it just benefits sloppy single moms.
Free market capitalism at any cost is costing us all.
FYI in Québec, Canada we have had for a long time a provincial daycare program that is now at $CND 8.50/Day (approximately $US 6.75/ Day).
The Federal government will now subsidize a similar program all over the country. These additional contributions from the federal government will most certainly lower even more the costs here in Québec.
This programs is easily paid back by the increase in, workforce availability, productivity and profitability for the employers. It goes without saying that there is an improvement of the workforce standard of living, quality of life and motivation. EVERYBODY WINS !
Canada does many many things way better than the USA. As an american who lived there for over 20 years, I give Canada great credit for the numerous things they do so much better than the USA.
Not in America. They want us to be like the 1950s.
Except children. The studies have been consistent in showing negative outcomes thanks to universal daycare. Oh, and don't forget mothers who raise their own children who have to subsidize this "8.50 a day" childcare.
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Please indicate your sources. It will be easy since you have read these studies.
@@sylvainmichaud2262 sure. “The Long-Run Impacts of a Universal Child Care Program” By Michael Baker, Jonathan Gruber, and Kevin Milligan. Even the biased media reporting on the study didn’t refute anything it said.
I lived in France for 20 years. When I found out how they treated pregnant women and then followed up supporting breast-feeding women, I thought my colleagues were lying to me. I could not believe that I will get two months paid leave and then another 6 to 8 months paid leave for breast-feeding. This was back in 1989 and 1990; I had two children back to back. My friend who was a teacher in New York at the same time was also having a child. She got no days off, no pay, no support. I found that to be sheer deprivation.
France, Germany and Sweden and Finland all are proving the best care in the world. We need to use their plan.
Definitely something to consider before having children.
Half of the country votes on banning abortion not on child care.
Lack of childcare in the US is by design and not a flaw of the system. If you make childcare extremely expensive for most, the inevitable result is that the parent who earns less (typically women) will need to stay home and take care of the kid. If you have multiple kids, this cycle continues and the women take on this responsibility. The intent here is actually quite clear and nefarious: to keep women down and keep them at home. You can’t achieve this medieval vision if childcare is free
Cheap childcare often means DANGEROUS childcare.
There will never be subsidized childcare in a country in which the religious right insists that women should be caring for their own children at home. Never. Do not have kids that need care outside your home if you don't think you can manage this, because there will be no meaningful help for you from the government. Or earn such a high salary that you can afford it.
As long as access to abortion us legal, but they are trying to take control over your body too.
A wider perspective on this matter is about demographics and economics. Current US fertility rate is 1.78 which is well below population replacement. With stagnant average wage rates, two income families are the norm, not the exception. Supporting women of child bearing age to work outside the home as well as raise more than 1 child is an economic imperative if the US to continue to be economically viable.
There needs to be a real separation of church and state in the US. Nothing will change without it.
I was required to take US History for my M Ed degree. I had never heard of the Great Awakening (I think it was called). In fact, there were two such religious movements in US early history. They shed light on the current evangelical stranglehold on domestic life.
The Build Back Better bill has addressed this! Trump did nothing but Biden is working hard on helping Americans with child care.
You really think there will be a thorough policy and money to fund early childhood? You are dreaming
Daycare costs more than my paycheck. So I stay home with the kids. Lol.
Would you look at that. You're not an idiot!
Everyone wants a 'living wage' now, it's going to get tighter for day care. It's driven by the passion of the workers, but at the end of the day, they need to pay their bills, too.
I provide care in the home for a 2 year old on a ventilator with tube feedings, the family's insurance pay my wages. I am an RN with 40 years ICU/ER experience, I make $25. an hour which is $4. an hour more than my grandson who flips burgers and cooks fries at In and Out Burger.
...not sure why you’re laughing-out-loud, but way to do the math!
Had four kids under five. I was out numbered and and out gunned.
I did too and got a valedictorian and summa cum laude at the end, that I wouldn't have, if they were instead in daycare. Maybe someday I'll get dumped at a better nursing home than I would have otherwise.
If a family is not tight in money, mothers or fathers, specially mothers (they are natural nurturers) need to stay home and take care of the children until they are 18 years old. That would solve all child care problems and have a happy family dynamic and may end divorces too.
Staggering numbers. Given that nothing will be done I wonder what the logical consequences will be.
My husband wanted me to put my kid in a daycare and get a job. He wanted me to get a job at Subway because it was near my home. Kindercare was also near our home. It cost more than Subway paid. So I got to stay home and raise my own child and frankly being able to raise your own child is the best. But free childcare would be a lifesaver for a lot of people. I didn't see a plus in letting someone else raise my kid for no money, but if I had the choice to work even part time and being able to be with my kids most of the time I would be happy. Part time I might be cool with.
He is an idiot, you are not and your child won't be either. You made the best choice, based on my personal experience and those years with them were priceless. I would trade all my possessions to be able to shrink them down to 6 months old and do it again.
US is totally dysfunction here --- 1st off please remind you why don't you guys have paid maternity leave ? Every single rich nation in the world has this (and most poor ones too My country India has 6 months now). Also too many regulations are choking availability of local child care. Yet, NO ONE will bell this cat. It suits large employers and that's that as far as the great economic power US is concerned. Women are just choosing to have less or no kids and this will continue resulting in a HUGE ageing population issue in a few decades.......good for you.
The thing is all those countries pay a lot more in taxes. But this country people always want lower or no taxes. We expect everyone to do it on their own. This is a rough country.
USA is very cruel to the working poor and very generous to the wealthy
20 years ago I went to community college and there is the only affordable child I could get. My son loved it and it was a wonderful day care, pre-K, kindergarten for college students.
Caretakers agree making minimum wage, while no one can afford to pay for childcare. Like so many other ad hoc 'you're on your own' systems that we have, this one is failing, and it's doesn't have to be this way. Other countries make it possible to have children, and care for them without going broke. Not no mention how my German colleagues at the same company can get about 6 months of PPL.
children should be with their parents until 1st grade.
absolutely
If you can't afford children don't have them. Why should the government pay to watch your kids, it was a choice you decided. I formed a group of other mothers and we took turns watching each other's kids as we worked when I was a young single mom with two babies.
Now I'm a retired RN. I do in house child care for a toddler that is on a ventilator and requiring tube feedings. Mom and Dad care for the child but I work an 8 hour shift 5 days a week while they work. I donate a lot of over time for free as travel to and from work for the parents takes time. I make $25. an hour which is half my usual pay, but it's one cute boy, one ventilator so what's not to love. The parents insurance plan pays my wages.
You of all people should understand the potentially massive cost of childcare. What parent anticipates having a child with a severe condition requiring skilled medical care such as the child you care for? Your half-rate of $25/ hour is 77% of the median household income in the US. The child you care for is lucky that their parents’ insurance covers it. The cost of this care alone would bankrupt the average family. Who could possibly anticipate that? The simple answer to your question is this: governments and therefore taxpayers (in many countries, not the US) subsidize things like childcare because there is a basic recognition that the country as a whole is stronger if parents can participate in the work force, if families aren’t forced to decide between childcare and rent, and if young children have safe places to be while their parents work. I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people.
@@hmcmail57 the level of narcissism and lack of empathy…. Just because they lived a golden egg existence and never had some child with such conditions that only millionaires could afford but goes with the American right wing territory all a bunch of embarrassed pseudo millionaires living with Aires of importance
@@hmcmail57 Vast majority of children do not have special needs. It's irresponsible to have unprotected sex, producing children unplanned that parents can't afford to or are willing to provide for. I worked for 20 years in the ER caring for women who were pregnant with 3-4 or more children in tow, no husband, unknown fathers of the brood all paid for by tax dollars. Unfortunately our bodies are made to continue the species by having the reproduction center with the pleasure center. It works in nature but now that the planet is massively over populated children continue to be created with no plan at all how the parents are to afford or raise them.
We're going to see some big changes, something has to give. The right to reproduce without consequences or responsibility is going to create a political intervention someday, not right away, but maybe in the lifetime of the next generation.
If parents want a child it needs to be a factor planned out how to afford the care but that seems to be an afterthought once the child is already born. I waited till I was 30 to have children, we dated for 3 years, married, had careers in place, home purchased with good downpayment then planned our family. I think we were in the 1% of parents with a plan. Whiners want the government to step in and correct their mistakes and failure to plan or willingness to provide for their own.
You have a seriously sweet deal. I am a therapist doing home care for the same population. I am paying for you through the insurance industry's ability to pass costs on. So when you love your easy job, just remember that I am out there working to pay for it.
@@eckankar7756 considering your political group is also backing removing abortion the something has to give will not happen. They will just remove all government assistance except for corporations that only work to streamline and push jobs abroad. Creating more of the condition you dislike. Most of those women weren’t provided full education on contraceptives nor were they provided Much of it. The ones that truly can’t afford kids can’t afford health insurance. And a great many are also religious and thus are brainwashed into going against contraceptives. And if they are millennials there’s a big and I mean a huge incentive in social media to push against the pill and push for rhythm method.
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And college is also unaffordable.
what a stupid thing to say and then this lady repeat...you can love kids and be passionate as a child care worker and still need to pay your bills and make a liveable wage, it is unacceptable how little the actual workers make
Parents pay a lot and the childcare workers get a low salary.
I think men in power feel that childcare is a woman's problem. And woman do not have the power to change policy, law then enforce these rules. The children suffer when women are not in power or making a living wage. Compassion, transparency, integrity and accountability for all!
Excellent analyses.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Of course they do!! This is why it is terrifying that they want to overturn Roe.
Men in power generally have lots of money and have no problem affording child care. It would be tough for them to relate to being financially burdened by child care.
Child care problem solved! Just be rich!
it is a woman's problem, it is certainly not my problem.
Families need to be able to live off of one income. It’s absolutely abusive to force a new mother to work postpartum while breastfeeding. I will never have a child with a man who cannot provide so I can raise my children at home
Need to alter how we consume. Redirect spending so people benefit, not corporations so much.
Years ago I had Spanish friends, with a lot of children. When the fruit season came, all the women went to work in the cannery and others cared for the children. I do not know the compensation or how the woman worked out certain responsibilities but I knew year after year the system worked.
I see this same phenomenon in the African American community as well. Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles, the retired able, all had to step up to provide childcare for those who needed an affordable option. Paying thousands of dollars per month just is not an option for people in the minimal way bracket or single parents.
This is insane! Wow! America is heartless.
The way to fix the daycare problem is to make it financially and socially attractive for mothers to stay home with their children for the first 5 years of their lives. This is what children need and want....why can't we do what's best for the children and reduce the tax burden on society at the same time?
Any region CONservative-controlled will never invest in anything that benefits women and children, especially anything that improves their autonomy, quality of life, or general well-being. Only federally mandated, controlled, and supervised measures will ever benefit women and children in those areas. Poverty is the primary tool used to maintain power in CONservative areas, so they have ZERO intention of eradicating it.
@Lordeverfall100 We've all seen the CONservatives who believe themselves a “stable mental genius” despite all evidence to the contrary. Sweeping your ever shortfalls under the rug only hides them from your delusional selves.
70 percent of all criminals come from single mothers.
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@@louisanow BS. The dysfunctional are the children of single moms. School shooters didn't exist before daycare.
@@hedgefundphil SINCE THE DAWN OF HUMANITY, Lying CONservative patriarchy traditionally sweep all their violence and sins under the rug, pretend they don't exist and ignore it all - like #GymJordan did for those athletes who were abused by their own team's leaders.
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Why should I pay for someone to watch your kids? Is it too much to expect people to raise their own kids? How does it make sense to outsource babysitting so you can work a job making less than the child care costs?
Because you live in a society, and those children will pay for your Social Security benefits, assuming you ever move out of your parent's house.
That's just like me saying, when you grow old no one should be expect to be paid to take care of you or your aging parents because it not their responsibility to baby other people's parent. Dont worry, Our low birth rate is already gonna make this a reality.
@@kolyxix That's true too. I don't expect you to take care of me in my old age. That's why I have a retirement plan to take care of myself.
The bill offers subsidies to towns, counties and cities where the state doesn’t opt in.
Our military Child Development Centers (CDC) are phenomenal and have a great program for training and accountability of care givers. They have a well established and historically praised system; even the infrastructure sets the bar states could aim for.
I take care of my daughter's three daughters. Three or four days a week. I wonder how much that would be worth if they had to pay someone. I've been doing it for 10 years, and I'll probably do it 10 more years until the youngest doesn't need supervision.
@Bal Rex That's a stupid comment. If you ask my daughter, she would say it's priceless. It also has a market value. And obviously, I don't charge her. Because yes, they're my family.
@Bal Rex I've saved them many thousands of dollars. To say it's worth nothing is pretty much Trump stupid.
Making having children too expensive is a great way to keep the human population down. Less humans is good humans.
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That's very sad but most states are completely broke and can't afford more than 20% reimbursements for childcare. Illinois, for instance, has $25 billion in its general cash account along with $270 billion debts and unfunded pension liabilities on its balance sheet. All states and cities post their CAFR's online and you can find out how much money they have to spend on childcare (usually zero). Don't even think about asking the feds to subsidize child care. The national debt is already $900,000 per taxpayer.
Iheard a radio show talking about childcare in Quebec: subsidising the cost to $10day. Results: more families having more kids more women at work and more jobs for child related jobs. Who loses?
This policy of no childcare is one of the most effective ways to keep women at home. Reduce women’s participation in the workforce and lowers their wages. It’s really effective at keeping people from becoming middle class. This is the heart of conservatism’s.
One industry that won't be affected by technology.
An electric assembly line worker told me that she used to bring her children to work and they stayed in her car because there was no other place for them.
Nordic countries have great child care, too, from even before the baby arrives. Also, France does not have charter schools. "Because that would not be democratic."
If both parents want to or need to work their childcare should definitely be subsidized, but instead Billionaires consume all the wealth and pay virtually no taxes. I do think you change society when a child is raised by workers rather then parents. It is a form of disinvestment or put it a less damming way it’s a trade off. But economic realities do push people out into the workforce unless parents work different hours and then you sacrifice the relationship time. With tax breaks and better income for working middle and lower income people this wouldn’t be such a crushing issue.
The best child care is, when one of the parents stays home with the child. Why have a child if you are going to have someone else take care of it? I know, sometimes the child is not planned and you are struggling financially, then, the goverment should pay for you to stay home with your child or at least pay for your childcare costs.
I agree with one exception: high-quality daycare (EXTREMELY RARE AND COSTLY) is the key. In many instances, high-quality daycare is better for children versus staying at home with their parents. High-quality daycare requires one trained and licensed adult for every 2 children. These adults understand brain development and the know-how to teach/guide children for the best outcomes. My fear is that we'll go down a daycare warehouse road where kids will be in cramped, crowded, loud, chaotic, spaces where they'll develop aggressive and anxious behaviors.
Because we don’t want to be dependent on husbandsthat then leave us for the younger piece of meat. Thus women enter the work world and at least work part time. To feel that they have some leverage and a plan b.
I stayed home with my son since he was one, my wife had the better job with healthcare. Great experience for me! Rare but not the exception.
@@richardpirovano then you are a very confident man. A lot of guys fear leaving their jobs even for six months. I am actually all in favor for maternity and paternity leave. In fact I worked in an old company that gave both for 3 months (and in the Us) though I’m sure it will change post Covid since it was one of the ones impacted by loss of revenue throughout the year (and loss of operations). I saw a few managers that took their paternity leave and were happy about it.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Go back in time to the 50s and examine the roles and influence of the original members of the Club of Rome. They were convinced that there are too many poor people, that brown people have more children, that the world's poor populations would invade and destroy the US. Children therefore should be treated as being of negative worth; an optional luxury for financially affluent people. The answer was simple, make having children an expensive burden. Discourage immigration. Make aid programs conditional on third world countries reducing their birth rates. Refuse to provide working conditions suitable to families. Refuse to provide day care, sick leave, maternity leave. Make benefits contingent on not including insurance for births, child care, (but covering abortions). The Club of Rome had members strong influence on every institution politically active at the time, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
what is wrong with the club of rome?
It is the same in many western countries
I have one comment, China graduates 5 million science, technology, engineering and mathematics degrees per year. The government provides students with help as an investment in the future. Meanwhile the US is cannibalizing itself...
@Bal Rex your point is....?
Can't afford kids? Don't have them.
If you need preschool childcare, you shouldn’t have had children.
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More money taken from parents' pockets:
Twice a year portraits.
Caps and gowns, and portraits for preschool graduation.
Fees for enrichment activities, like dance, sports, etc.
We could start a fund or foundation daycare lower it
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My niece and her boyfriend pays about close to $1,000 a month on child care
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Mississippi would toss the kids into the gator pond.
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This still.doesny explain how childcare workers are making so little money when parebts are paying $1500 and up per month. She says labor is the main Expense, but no one is paying the labor soooo.....
It’s scary to think of small children being put in just anyone’s hands for multiple hours a day. I blame both the govt. and the parents for this.
Not every parent is great for their kid either. I bet a lot of those kids are safer in childcare
So stay at home or stop having kids you can't take care of.
If someone can't make enough working to pay for child care, why are you working? And why would you expect everyone to pay for you to have it? I get the point of my taxes paying for schools, as an educated population has societal benefits. Letting someone (a parent) have something they can't afford (a job that doesn't pay much), I'm not sure about that.
How insensitive and foolish. Guess what, buddy when you grow old, you better no expect anyone to take care of your old ass.
@@kolyxix Looks like we found a moocher.
For a variety of reasons there is a NEED for PRESCHOOL It's an investment in the quality of life for all of America. Stop making it a burden.
Who much do childcare providers make per hour.
I do 1 on 1 with a 2 year old that is on a ventilator and requires tube feedings and I get $25. a hour.
It depends where you are. Our local daycare was paying only $8 an hour for part time and $10 an hour for full time teachers. Very low pay.
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Have you thought about this at all?
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Oh. I have an idea. Why not pay women enough money to afford daycare? :) No, that will not work because our overlords couldn't afford space trips. :(
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These European child care systems would never work here in the US. The US is too big and complicated.
You could say that for any of the social services we already have in America. You'd be wrong, but no more wrong than with your claim about childcare.
How do you solve it? Go home, and raise your own kids.
Feminism is a first world luxury good. Men and women are not equal. You gotta choose. If you're gonna get married and have kids, don't go to college. If you want a career, don't marry, and don't have kids. If you aren't going to form a family, don't marry in the first place.
Otherwise, the kids suffer. Then when they grow up, the social costs of day care make us all suffer.
And quit using grandparents as subsidized long term babysitting.
Yes, men don't have to make that choice, and it's not fair. Nobody cares. Stuff it, and deal with reality.
There is a growing number of men out there who are now saying, “Sounds good to me. Women should be staying home to care for these kids.” A sad reality that you see in the media more and more.
It's not very stimulating to care for babies and children. Perhaps more Dads can stay at home!
These are the same men who scream bloody murder if the relationship fails and they have to pay child support, because their partner didn't get a career that could support the kids
Bring back traditional families problem solved. Live within your means women stay home with your kids encourage the husband. Or have strangers watch your kids and complain to the government because he’s your daddy.
And why exactly does it have to be the women at home?? Or don't you trust men to keep the kids alive?
It's all by design.
Stop having children.
Sure. Let's make sure Roe isn't overturned so that won't be a problem!
Keep it in your pants ravi.
What a sacrifice!!!
Remember when pretty trump said she was going to help the people by making child care a tax deduct? So...if you have a home and you itemize you taxes, and you already paid for childcare...you get money back!!!! Thanks! I hope some day to be in that situation. I keep playing Powerball.
These comparisons have no weight. France this France that, during the pandemic they gave zero money if you lose your job. This is jail babble.
Same problem in France. They pay people 11 euros per hour and you need a degree to work in childcare. More than half of your income is eaten by the taxes. This is why you have yellow vests protests. It doesn't work.
I taught school for 35 years watch the transition From tapping a child On the hand 4 misbehaving .Without a little punishment , The students are totally out of control
This will certainly make me a massively disliked person:
The way nature intended it, was certainly as the job and duty of the mother, and mothers helping each other.
Why shouldn't we pay more for childcare? The recipients are vulnerable and can't speak or act in their own defense. The practitioners should be held to very high standards of accountability.
College students pick and choose their own classes and instructors. They don't need to be sheltered like children do.
And they can usually manage to defend themselves against the rest of the students and staff.
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5:00 so, she lives in NY and doesn't know whether she's spending $2k or $3k a month on childcare? Hmmm... Can we get back to not having kids unless you can actually afford them? As a single woman, I have not ever been able to afford kids, hence the decision to not have them. When I look at my paychecks, I am paying for your kids to exist. Stop having kids you can't afford in the first place.
I remember a time when the mother took care of her children. The failure is we’ve been duped into making it necessary to have two incomes to make it. We need to find our way back. The most important job in the world is “mother”.
Why can't people take care of their own children?
Why can't people take care of their aging parent
They feel they need two paychecks to pay the bills.
Having children is a choice. If you can't afford children - be responsible and don't have them. It's not right to choose to do something and then expect others who have been responsible to pick up the tab.
Wow, too bad for women who have to choose between their career or having a child. That is how you sound
Julien. You it is 2 ways street, when you grow old, you better not expect to have other people take care of you to as well.
Why should I pay for someone else parent.
Life circumstances change as vicissitudes settle upon some people. Hopefully you never get injured, sick, widowed or in any other way, get fiscally challenged, because eating your words will leave a bitter taste.
In the long term, that's going to be more expensive for society - South Korea, Japan and China are in that situation, and you know what? People are choosing not to have children - the birth rate in South Korea is 0.85 children per woman. In the next 100 years, the populations of those countries are expected to half and a smaller working age population is going to have to support an ever larger elderly population. Governments and society at large will have to pick up the tab anyway, just caring for old people for 20+ years instead of babies for 2.
Thinking about everything in terms of individual choice neglects the bigger picture.
Better be prepared then for your civilisation to go extinct.
you lost me at the word ..leadership. .
People put their babies in daycare at 6 weeks old. They should be arrested. These people are sick.
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If you can't afford children don't have them.
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That sounds good. So why are lots of states making it harder for women to make that choice? Lots of states are refusing to teach teens about these costs, the value and use of contraception, and are banning abortion. It's a big lapse in personal responsibility, that they project onto pregnant women and girls with statements like yours.
What a tiny box you live in!
@@波紋小石 agree! They want you to not have kids but then don’t want contraceptives and are doing a social media campaign to get millennials and younger crowds to drop the pill and go for rhythm which doesn’t work. Meanwhile again citing only rich people can afford children. Because bottom line to afford a child even if they are born with a disability or disease is only going to be a rich person.
Good idea. Let's protect Roe vs. Wade so accidents don't lead to this. And maybe men should get vasectomy procedures so they don't contribute to the problem!
If mothers were being dutiful to their calling, there would not be a child care problem. They should be at home rearing their offspring. They control the decision to have children and should be held responsible for their decisions just as men are.
Because they are women they should be the ones at home? Oh yeah because in general men can't be trusted to keep toddlers alive? Geez, you have a really poor opinion of men..
I have no sympathy for people that look for others to raise their kids. Switch shifts if you have to, unless of course we’re talking about single moms. In that case, stop reproducing randomly and actually get knocked up by someone that’ll stick around. One of you work days, the other work afternoons. All of the young people committing crimes or living with their parents into their 40’s and entitlement has a lot to do with parents not wanting to do the job. Nobody in my family uses daycare’s, not only have they been exposed for neglect on many occasions but YOU should be raising YOUR kids. Lazy and worthless wannabe parents.
People living in multi generational homes helping each other is not the same as living a life of crime....very odd you'd equate these things. You do know that for the majority of history people lived in multi generational homes, right? Everyone living in their own little nuclear unit was a marketing thing created in the 1950s. It's not even natural and certainly doesn't go back further than the 1930s ..
@@michah321 you do know multi generational homes aren’t daycares right? A family is much different than relying on strangers to do your job for you. Save your feelings for someone that values then, having kids is a responsibility so be responsible.
@@mike223reloader I don't understand what you're even saying. You seen to agree there's a benefit to multigenerational homes it's how kids were cared for since the dawn of time. Are you sure we aren't agreeing?
@@michah321 about multi generational homes, yes I completely agree. I was raised by my grandparents, aunts and uncles. I disagree with people using daycares, giving your kids to strangers is a bad idea. Regardless of what they claim their jobs are.
@@mike223reloader I think it's like anything, I know people who had amazing experiences in daycare and horrible experience with family as you can imagine. Maybe the best thing is to have different options for different people. I know a guy who ended up with custody of two little girls, one was a toddler. The daycare was a Godsend and the staff was wonderful. I'm just saying I think being locked into specific options is like ridgid fashion rules.. high rise jeans aren't for everyone despite what the magazines say and low rise jeans weren't good for everyone despite what magazine said twn years ago.