Child care

[StreetEndBoy]

Why all the fuss about lack of child care facilities? If you want children one partner should stay at home and raise them!!!
I have no problem with people who have lost partners getting free child care it's the ones who want a career and children, or the single girl who wants there accessory child, that pi** me off. You make the commitment so stick to it.
My wife and I both worked before we had children. My wife gave up her job to rear them full-time. Had she been the higher wage earner I would have given up my job.

[kat83]

I stay at home whilst my husband works, i guess im one of the fortunate ones, but i know a lot of people that cannot afford to stay at home with their children and both have to work. I think you have made a very general statement without thinking over every persons different situation and i feel you may get a number of peoples backs up......or maybe that is what you were intending!

[redcrx]

I work full time, I pay for childcare and i pay tax.

are you saying youd prefer it i gave up work and we started claiming tax credits instead?

[Mully79]

How fortunate for you that you can live off one wage. My family can't so be both go out to work.

I suppose I could quit work, fend off the bailiffs and start claiming benefits but I think the better option - to set an example for my daughter and for the economy - would be to go to work.

I had a career before I had my daughter, now I just have a job to get by. But I also set up my own business last year and what a great example to set for your children to show that you can do things like that.

I've nothing against stay at home mums - I'd love to have that option - but there's a much bigger range of circumstances out there that affect choice, your comments were a little naive.

[Mrs Y]

Why shouldn't women (and men, for that matter!) be able to have children AND a career?

Some women simply do not WANT to stay home all day, every day with their children. I personally find it boring, unfulfilling, unrewarding and incredibly lonely.

I love my children very much, but also love my work. My husband and I do not take money off the state, we have a fantastic childminder who my children absolutely adore, and we spend weekends as a family with two contented, fulfilled parents and two happy, sociable children.

I certainly do not expect the state to pay for my children's care; they are my children, and my husband and I pay for them to be looked after while we're at work. Why does that pi** you off?

If your wife is happy being a full-time mum, then good for her. But it is certainly not something that suits everybody, and I strongly believe that happy, fulfilled parents = happy, fulfilled children.

[Mrspoppins]

I gave up a good career to care for my children, and we experienced some real hardship living on one wage and it is, at times, one of the most thankless tasks you'll ever do. I do have friends who simply couldn't survive on their husbands wage, however, I live near a creche, and when I watch a particular type of mum, leave her kids off at the crack of dawn, driving top of the range cars, flinging their designer handbags over their shoulders, and handing over their child/children to some 17 yr old chav with her tongue pierced and an NVQ in childcare (her only qualification) It absolutely breaks my heart. Before you all try to lynch me, I KNOW they're not all like that. What really makes me angry are the women who lie to my face and tell me how lucky I am, they would love to be at home with their kids but simply couldn't afford to do so...B"LL$H!T Of course they could stay at home, but
a: They couldn't hack it (its far too unglamourous)
b: They NEED 3 holidays a year (2 without the kids)
c: They can't give up their designer lifestyle
I drive a clapped out 10 year old car, haven't had a holiday in 4 years, shop in lidl, live in a small house, but I get hugs at the school gates every day, we can have tea parties in the garden on good days, build snowmen, or drink hot chocolate on bad days- I wouldn't swap this for any salary! By the way, I receive no benefits whatsoever, tax credit or otherwise. As my mum would say, we all need to "cut our cloth" according to our REAL needs!

[alicebear87]

True, it would be nice if we could all stay home with the kids but its very hard to live off one wage if its not very high. And I think it is possible to work and still spend quality time with the kids.

There are so many ins and outs to this situation its hard to cover them all but I don't think people who leave their kids at a nursery should be demonised, nurserys have many benefits for kids (for those who can afford them).

Its become an impossible situation witht the government pushing mums back to work and surveys saying that working mums damage childrens happiness. Can't win either way.

And by the way MrsPoppins, I don't think much of your nursery worker steriotype! My sister has a NVQ in childcare and she worked hard for it, learing many many things the average parent does't know. Its not easy being with a roomfull of nippers all day every day, it takes special skills that not everyone has. Its not a job for the fainthearted!

[alfonse21]

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[EmmaDcook]

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