What do they expect people with infants/toddlers to do?

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting thread OP. My only child is now 19. I don't have any answers but just wanted to express my concern about what this child care crisis is going to do to the mothers and the children.

Child care crisis -- I am going to submit it as a story idea to the NY Times. Maybe the Democratic platform can include some recommendation to this issue.

Instead of an additional $600 additional for those on unemployment, give that to working moms to help pay for daycare.

Also there has got to be a way to minimize in a safe way all of the regulations that are going to make it impossible for day cares to open.

Last article in the NYT about this issue was pre-pandemic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/opinion/child-care-crisis.html?searchResultPosition=2

This would just drive daycare prices higher.

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Given that teleworking government employees were considered essential, and that that probably extends to government contractors, I imagine a very large set of people in this area were deemed essential.

I'm a teleworking government employee and I wasn't considered essential for daycare purposes. Our daycare closed entirely but from what I could tell, every daycare in the area that was open was requiring proof that at least one parent was a medical professional, law enforcement, food industry, or critical transit or infrastructure. To the poster that said their child never stopped going, did you just keep sending them and no one asked questions?

VA did not shut down daycares. As long as the providers were okay with the risk of staying open, they could stay open.

They could stay open but they were required to have no more than 10 people in a room including children and teachers. For most places that cut the number of children they could take by half or more, especially if they have a low child:teacher ratio. In order to do that they had to only take the children of essential workers.

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Given that teleworking government employees were considered essential, and that that probably extends to government contractors, I imagine a very large set of people in this area were deemed essential.

I'm a teleworking government employee and I wasn't considered essential for daycare purposes. Our daycare closed entirely but from what I could tell, every daycare in the area that was open was requiring proof that at least one parent was a medical professional, law enforcement, food industry, or critical transit or infrastructure. To the poster that said their child never stopped going, did you just keep sending them and no one asked questions?

I'm not surprised to hear that daycares did that. But government employees working during the emergency were explicitly called out in the Maryland executive order, and later guidance from the Department of Education clarified that included teleworkers.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why you would not hire a nanny if your kids are not school aged. All the more if you have two or more kids. Heck, I have one five year old and I am thinking of hiring a nanny.

Oh yeah, the 38 million Americans who are unemployed are going to hire a fking nanny.

Fk you, PP.

Why would they need a nanny if they had no job? Just asking?