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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]Why do you consider it paid for with your money? Why isn't the cost of the nanny considered as a proportion of your/DH's salaries? Isn't he also financially responsible for childcare?

I realize that money is fungible, and that its easy to say that it's X% of one partners salary - but consider an expense as part of the total HHI.[/b]

Or, you could consider that your DH can easily cover it, and then you can save all of your salary.[/quote]

THIS! Why does the mother always take childcare expenses just out of her salary in order to justify staying home? I don't understand...[/quote]

See the previous post.  It’s not the “mother” always.  It’s the lower income partner.  If both partners are each making more than enough to pay for childcare, then sure it can rightly be called a shared expense.  But if one partner makes much more than the other, and the lower earning partner does not earn enough to even cover child care, then let’s not mess around: the higher earning partner is working because she or he has to, and the lower earning partner is working only because he or she wants to.  That’s why. [/quote]

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