$2K/month for two kids in flyover country at what amounts to the only day-care in the area. That's just the day-care costs, not counting the additional missed work from every bowel-voiding illness they bring home! Have to pick them up by 16:30.
Our parents' parents were primarily not paying for day-care. It still seems quite odd to their generation to have mom work to pay for someone else to watch the kids.
$2k/mo is a lot, but it can be avoided if one parent stays home. Helps with the illness-spreading and inconvenient pickup times, too. If you're in "flyover" country and there's only one day-care in the area, it's likely that's what a lot of the other households are doing.
It would be politically impossible to implement, but I would like a daring economist to compute the exact amount that childless people should be paying as subsidies towards those with kids.
I mean, if someone's pension and social services after they retire depend on the positive externalities generated by somebody else, how much is that worth?
systems_glitch|2 years ago
moduspol|2 years ago
$2k/mo is a lot, but it can be avoided if one parent stays home. Helps with the illness-spreading and inconvenient pickup times, too. If you're in "flyover" country and there's only one day-care in the area, it's likely that's what a lot of the other households are doing.
shiroiuma|2 years ago
This is what you get for living in a car-bound society. In a walkable society, the kids can just walk home if they're 6 years old or so.
systems_glitch|2 years ago
felipeerias|2 years ago
I mean, if someone's pension and social services after they retire depend on the positive externalities generated by somebody else, how much is that worth?
sul_tasto|2 years ago