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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
And the people CHOOSING to pay $1,500 a month have other options rather than pay that much and never had a gun to their head when they decided to have kids. Since responsible people would have looked at all the costs prior to unzipping, the cost of childcare was never a surprise and these people would have factored it into their budgets.
Onealternative is that one parent stays home. But that also assumes that the second parent isn't forced to work because of the ####ty financial skills the majority of people seem to possess.
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How can people plan for the costs of daycare when it can be increased by 50% in a boom? Seriously I get where you are coming from, but it's very difficult to plan 2 years in advance(baby making time, pregnancy and 1 year of mat leave) for an expense that can skyrocket drastically. When my first child was born, the best price we could find for a full-time day home was $700 for a 1 year old, by the time she was 1, the best deal we could find for a day home was $800/month for a 1 year old, 2 years later when our second child was born, we couldn't find a place for under $1000. And the expected drop in price for our first child(gets cheaper as they get older) was also negated by this inflation. So in the course of 3 years we were paying about $500/month more than we had planned for. That's not an insignificant amount of money, and most people certainly did not see that kind of inflation in their salaries in the same time period.