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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was recently offered a position for a newborn and 19 month old, 50 hours a week and light housekeeping. They offered $220 week. [/quote]

As a mom that makes me shudder. Who the hell are these shameless people? [/quote]

1) People who work in fast food, retail, or any other position where they have to be at work before daycares are open.
2) People who don't have cars to transport their children to/from daycare or to/from a nannyshare - particularly if they have to be at work before daycares are open.
3) Single mothers who've been waiting years for the child support judgment to actually deposit money into their accounts, perhaps these single mothers get by without cars while also working the opening shift (wake up call at 3am) at McDonald's...

I get paid an exceptionally high rate as a nanny and I am by no means suggesting that anyone should work for so little - it is not your responsibility to starve/end up homeless/struggle to pay your heating bill because someone else is in dire circumstances - but it would be generous of us all to remember that most parents offering these kinds of rates are not well-off people trying to rip off the nanny; they are struggling too and probably have far fewer choices than most of us reading here do. The lack of affordable childcare, the lack of emphasis on family support, is a national problem and it is not going to do any good to say "people should think about the cost first." Yes, some people do, but many more people do not and that is simply reality - let's talk about how to make that reality better for our citizens, thus strengthening the entire country, rather than bashing those raising children in poverty.[/quote]

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