Childcare - The Dilemma Facing Most Young Families
Ciara McGrath
In our modern society most families have both parents working.
In single parent families the lone parent has no option but to
work. But...who looks after the kids?
Parents looking for day care for their children have very few
options;
1.) Stay at home and look after the kids
2.) Work when your partner is home to look after the kids (Now
there's a recipe for a short relationship!)
3.) Put the children into a crèche, kindergarten or playgroup
during working hours
4.) Find a live-in Nanny
5.) Find a childminder
6.) Hit on brothers, sisters and parents to look after the
children
Staying at home with the kids sounds a good idea at first, but
then you soon find that you can't afford the most basic luxury
items that your kids want. "Other kids have them why can't I?"
is the usual refrain. Adults also need other adult conversation
that is not about kids, and work is the place where this is most
easily found.
I know people who have tried option 2, with one partner working
days and the other nights. Don't even go there. Love life?
Forget it, your relationship will soon be in tatters.
Crèche, kindergarten and playgroup child supervision is very
expensive. Many parents find that over half of their wages go
in paying the childcare fees for the week. Governments are
increasingly coming to realize that they have to do something
to give tax breaks to parents to go some way to paying their
child day care fees. Otherwise nobody will have kids and who is
going to pay the pensions of all those retired government
employees and politicians.
Live-in Nanny? Well au pair then. Au pairs can still be found,
but are notoriously unreliable, and with bad cases in the press
this option is fading away to zero for most parents.
Childminders look after your kids in the childminder's home.
All you have to do is drop them off and pick them up again.
Finding a childminder with a similar outlook to your own on
child rearing is difficult. Problems also arise when the
childminder is sick or wants to have a vacation. The largest
childminder problems come to the fore when your child is ill.
"She's ill is she? Sorry you can't leave her here then until
she's better again" is basically what you will hear.
Finding relatives to look after your kids may be difficult,
unless you have a turn and turn about arrangement that allows
both sets of parents the opportunity for paid employment.
To sum up - Don't have kids until you have ten years' of pay in
the bank to live on until you can go out to work again.
About The Author: Ciara McGrath is a full time mother to four
teenage daughters. One ofher daughters is married and expecting
her first child. Find more information at
http://a1-article-service.info. For more family related info
visit http://child-insurance.info
and http://only-barbie.info
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