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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody forced you to have children and you should know that you will need child care or you will need to stay home and take care of your child.  Child care givers also deserve to make a decent living and $10/hr is not a livable wage.  $15/hr should be minimum for each child.

Do not live above your means whether this means a house, car, or child that you cannot afford.[/quote]

$15 for each child?! if that was truly the going rate women would start staying home with their children. I realize there are plenty of high earners in the area but the average is around $85k. At $30/hr and 45 or 50 hours a week, plus employmer taxes, it would cost me money to work outside the home! I'm not loosing money AND missing out on quality time with my children. [/quote]
That should be the minimum going hourly rate. I'm home with my kid during the day and work at nights and weekends about 25 hours total. I work at the job that doesn't really even require training so almost everybody can do it. Plenty of those jobs out there, but they are just not good enough for many. I myself don't call it a real job, though it has fed me the last 20 years.
Yes, you could be losing money (I think you meant "losing money" and not " not losing money") and missing out on quality time with your children, but it's because of the hours and job you choose. I'm convinced you can do what I do for living and we do hire everybody almost weekly. The hours are flexible and you can stay home with the kids and work around your DH work if you have DH. If I calculate all the money I save by being home with the children plus part time work, I make a good living. DH has activities planned just for the time I work, I do things with DC when he works and we do things together when we both are off. Must be your job keeping you there and not looking for a better option. Don't cut somebody's pay because you don't make a whole lot.[/quote]

NP here- no one's pay is being "cut" by not spending $30/hour on childcare. Again we come back to this old argument-- that someone "should" be paid X. People are paid what the market can bear. Nannying has a very low barrier to entry and so there is more supply than demand.

If you think any particular job "should" be paid more or less than what the market suggests, you need to look at artificial methods of economic intervention-- namely the government. If childcare had more support from our collective tax dollars, carers and parents would both be in a better place.[/quote]

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