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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone tell me how employees in private sectors handle all these childcare issues post-covid? For example, nurses, EMTs, polce officiers, teachers, supermarket workers, factory workers, etc.[/quote]
Honestly, these people never took their kids out of childcare because they have never done WFH. They don’t have to worry about waitlists, etc. because they never gave up their child care slots to begin with. [/quote]

I can't believe you cite this reason.  Most kids of these parents in childcare pre-covid should be out of childcare by now (that's 5 yrs ago).

Some of them must have put their kids in childcare the first time after covid. How did they do it?[/quote]

They started early because they knew they needed it. They didn't wait for a policy change and then have to scramble.

Yes, the parents were irresponsible, but there's a real problem. And it is much worse if you have a child with special needs, because then the available options are much more limited. [/quote]

I'm both a federal worker and also one that cannot work remotely by the nature of my job. Both pre and post-COVID, the waitlists for infant spots in government facilities (ANY of them - we tried all of the ones in the area) were 2+ years. And yet, you could only put your name on the list if you were actually pregnant and had a due date. The waitlists for before/after-care were similar, and many of the programs that we looked at were closed permanently during our search. We were in fact kicked out of our first facility because there was so much demand that they decided to only serve families with two active duty parents (no civilian DOD or only one federal worker families). In order to keep our jobs, we turned to private daycare with no waitlists and ended up paying close to $3000/mo for one child, with a crazy commute well past our duty stations to drop our kid off. Most people in our workplaces (our employees) cannot afford to do this on multiple fronts: logistics, cost, availability. How exactly are these parents irresponsible?[/quote]

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