Child care debate
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- February
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I’m sure someone out there can point to one or two pre-K placements in the region that comes in at $1,000, whether it’s through subsidized care programs or otherwise. Personally, I don’t know of any under $1,200, and that’s being generous.
Either way, the point is well taken: Child care costs a small fortune, and it’s a serious issue in the nation right now. For a divorced or single parent, it could be a huge fortune.
Greater minds than mine have delved into this, and here we still are. What I was able to find was an article on this at the Child Care Aware website. Perhaps it’s not the definitive help list on this, but it does offer some suggestions on managing child care costs.
So, while we wait for the presidential hopefuls to find a way to deliver the goods, let’s get a little proactive.
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on Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 11:24 am by Jorge Fitz-Gibbon.
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I have to say, I get tired of people expecting government (meaning their fellow citizens) to take responsibility for the personal decisions that they have made.
Nobody is forced to have children in today’s society, so if you have children, you ought to consider how they’re going to be cared for before you have them.
I understand that circumstances sometimes change, and that people sometimes require some help. But I don’t think there should be any entitlement for people to effectively force other people to pay for the care of their children.
All citizens support educational facilities whether they have children or not, and I agree with this, but we have to draw the line somewhere. School can’t educate kids because they have to be the parent too, and it just doesn’t work.