http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jan/12/soaring-cost-of-childcare
According to The Guardian, child care in Britain has risen by 19 percent in the past year. 24 percent of unemployed parents said the reason they could not work was because of the cost of childcare. Among the age group of 18 to 24 year olds the percentage rises to 38 percent. The article said that all of this causes a triple problem. Parents are staying on government benefits, mothers are not able to move up in the workforce and it slows down the economic recovery because potential works are unable to enter the workforce. The article also stated that the majority of families thought that child care centers were not family friendly because of the strict schedules they had.
The price of child care is very important for parents to consider. If a parent has a low paying job and two or more kids, it actually makes more financial sense for them to stay home and take care of their kids. The cost of child care greatly affects the parent's cost of living. It means they now have less money to spend on rent, food and other needs. Some of the state government in the United States offer subsidized child care programs. It reduces the amount the parents have to pay for child care and the parents can go to work. I am not sure if Britain has any programs similar to that, but they should have some sort of subsidized child care.
Childcare costs too much. Parents stay at home to take care of their kids rather than putting them in daycare because that costs a lot more. Britain really should start forming some kind of program to help parents with low paying job.
ReplyDeleteChildcare is very expensive. I don't think it would be good for the parents to just stay home and take care of their kinds. People definitely should spend time with their children, but we need to have people working too. I agree with Thao that the government should try to start forming some more programs to help those parents with the low paying jobs.
ReplyDeleteBut you have to remember that creating a new program or subsidy means that taxes must be increased on other, more successful people. We cannot do everything for every citizen. I'm not against helping, but throwing money at the situation isn't always the best solution.
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