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The solution about 0% of people want to hear to reducing childcare costs is that you have to allow higher children-pet-daycare worker ratios, which likely means
by hiAndrewQuinn 3y ago
The solution about 0% of people want to hear to reducing childcare costs is that you have to allow higher children-pet-daycare worker ratios, which likely means in turn more iPad babies.
- anon291 3y agoalternatively, make grandparenting a thing again.
- michaelt 3y agoShame people are having kids later than ever (thanks to college debt), and moving to where the jobs are, so the grandparents are older and further away than ever before.
- midasuni 3y agoAnd if they aren’t grandparents are working anyway.
- anon291 3y agoThere are many ways to encourage this. I think grandparents who can show they are providing material care to grandchildren should receive heavy tax relief, and maybe even subsidies (like a grandchild tax credit). Or, allow tax free sales of properties for grandparents to downsize go a place closer to children
- pixl97 3y agoMaybe grandparents don't want to raise kids any more and want to slack off in a life of leisure.
- digging 3y agoOr increase childcare funding ???
- titanomachy 3y agoThat moves the costs around but doesn’t reduce them per se.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoRight, but if you're already partially paying (through your taxes) for childcare, the change in costs between not having children and having children is dramatically lower. And the financial costs of raising the next generation are shared more evenly across the population, instead of being concentrated on the people that are also doing the majority of the actual work.
- hiAndrewQuinn 3y agoNot enough. Here in Finland full time childcare is capped at 300 euros per child by law, the rest of the cost passing on to the taxpayer, but we haven't seen a resurgence in birthrates due to that. But you could get that down to 150 if you doubled the ratio, or 100 if you tripled it, and maybe then people would start again.