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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I seriously do not mean to be snarky but I feel very strongly that child care costs should not be "charged" or "counted" against the mom's salary.  I assume you have a career that you have worked on and are proud of.  (You work at a company that provides a 401k match, which is pretty rare these days).

You cannot just look at the costs right now.  What about the years in lost seniority, lost retirement, hit to your career?

Of course, if you want to SAH, you should make that choice.  But don't do any false calculations of "cost of daycare" vs "my take-home pay right now."

Never in our conversations have DH and I "counted" daycare against my salary.  It's a household cost, same as the mortgage and whatever other joint expenses.[/quote]

In our house we counted daycare aginst me because I was the one who would have stayed home. DH makes 4x what I do and we could not survived on my job alone so if a spouce was stating home it was me. In our case it made since to run the numbers (daycare cost vs my take home pay) to see what worked best for our family. [/quote]

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