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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you see a different in what kind of parent sends their kid to daycare versus hires a nanny versus stays at home?[/quote]

Mostly class differences.

In my experience, parents who send their kids to daycare are working class, parents who have a SAHP are middle class and parents with a nanny are upper class.

A lot of the decisions with what to do for childcare depends on income, not wishes or wants, unfortunately.[/quote]

NP here. I haven’t seen this to be true in my experience, at least not for “upper middle class” or whatever class you’d call well-educated biglaw/consulting/GS15 types in DC. From my experience talking to other working moms coworkers at two biglaw firms and as in house lawyer, plus living in an area full of these types (think North Arlington), it seems like a huge percentage send their kids to incredibly expensive daycare centers. I did as well. While I am sure that the super wealthy hire nannies, I didn’t see a ton of people in this UMC demographic going with a nanny or becoming a SAHM. Unless you’d call people making $200-500,000/year who send their kids to daycare working class, the take above doesn’t fit with what I’ve seen. Plus, what truly working class person could afford infant daycare at a Bright Horizons in downtown DC?

I agree with a PP who said that working class people seem to often use in-home daycares, and it does seem to me that many more middle class people I know moved to become SAHMs.

I’m not convinced that the well-regarded and very expensive daycare where I sent my kids was necessarily the right choice in hindsight, although they seem to be doing perfectly fine in early elementary now, but I do think that this analysis is missing a huge chunk of the DC area population. [/quote]

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