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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lack of affordable childcare.[/quote]
Even if it's free, someone outside the household shouldn't have to take care of your sick kid. The problem is the culture of working through illness and the belief that your job is so very important. Usually, it's really just not. Parents are penalized for staying home with sick kids. Some literally cannot afford to stay home because they work hourly. Basically, the answer is "capitalism". [/quote]

Yes...and the thing is, it is totally normal and expected for kids to be sick often for the first few years of group care (whether that is daycare, preschool, kindergarten, whatever). Policy just hasn’t caught up to the changes in American society...dual income, lack of extended family help.

My parents both worked, and my grandma or aunt would sit with us (for routine illness) if needed. But they lived in the same town, didn’t WOH, and were young/healthy compared to today’s grandparents because people tended to have kids younger. [/quote]

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