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Many families look at the numbers and decide that it makes more sense to have one parent stay home than pay $1400 per kid per month.

• daniel-grigg 6y ago
  Just to put things into perspective, in Sydney Australia a typical, inner city early learning centre costs $160/day, so $3200 per month. There are means tested rebates available but they cap out both in total per year and per day.
• Impossible 6y ago
  $1400 is the cost to put kids in alternative private programs (daycare/preschool). Keeping kids in (public) kindergarten is "free". I put that in quotes because pandemic kindergarten requires significantly more parent involvement. $1400 a month could look like a bargain compared to losing a full-time salary or could look like too high a cost to justify having both parents work. In dual parent hetero relationships, it's usually the mom that drops out of the workplace
• bombcar 6y ago
  Doesn’t a parent have to stay home with the kid anyway since everything’s remote?
  • stevekemp 6y ago
    I suspect that depends where you are - here in Finland schools closed, but daycare stayed upon (1-6 years old). It was strongly encouraged that you keep your child home, but if your parents were doctors/similar there was no qualms about the kids going to daycare. Ours certainly went for the duration. We pay €250/month for that, which is very cheap.