From: Ronn!Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 02:20 AM 6/1/03 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote:
And the problem is now that everyone thinks needs, when they mean wants. They need cable TV, a cell phone, two or more cars, a maid, a nanny, a day care center.
How about a single parent who needs the latter in order to go to work and feed (usually) her kids if she doesn't want to be on welfare?
I doubt that many couples would consider a day care center a "want" rather than a "need", either. I don't know anyone that did it for any reason other than that they couldn't afford to have one parent quit work to watch the kids. For one thing, it's fantastically expensive: the decent, not unreasonably priced one we used for a while cost nearly $14k/year (which means that after a kid or two it's very often less costly for one parent to quit work). Also, for many parents, using day care find it heart-wrenching to leave your child with strangers while you go to work. My wife made me do it because she couldn't bear to do it, and even I got teary-eyed every time I dropped James off for the first 1-2 months. Then there's all the colds your kid gets from the other kids, and the times your child gets bitten by another child (true story), etc. In other words, I'd say very few people would consider using day care except as a necessity.
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