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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are very few ways to improve the childcare crisis.  Young children need care and close supervision.  They go to school around age 5.  Until this time, you have to fork over money to pay for their care.  The good news is that it’s for a short period of time.

Everyone thinks European parental leave is so great but really they are just paying women an extremely low wage to stay home with kids. The media or even Europeans talk about their “fully paid leave,” but rarely disclose that the max you can even get is $200-300 a week.  Who wants to stay home for an entire year with a baby for $20k?  This is a great deal if you were already planning to SAH, but it’s hardly a panacea and comical that American women are jealous of this benefit.  No thanks.

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Given I was only making $65K before taxes, that would have been great to get $20K as by the time I paid for day care, taxes, union dues and all that,  I would not have made anything.  It all depend son how you look at it.[/quote]

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