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I assumed the opposite. Knew a women who worked 100% as foster mom. Had 3 children at a time, age 6 to 13. Everything was well organised. It seemed to me, c
by k__ 2y ago
I assumed the opposite.
Knew a women who worked 100% as foster mom.
Had 3 children at a time, age 6 to 13.
Everything was well organised.
It seemed to me, child care can work pretty well of it's your main job and you get paid by the state.
- rileymat2 2y agoWorking well with a three one ratio does not scream scaling to me. The when you have more need than care workers it falls apart, with no way to scale it besides hiring more out of a pool that may not exist at the price you were paying the previous ones. If you think in terms of supply and demand, if they are already have the curves met, additional demand is going to scale more than linearly because you need more people at a higher pay.
- pschoeps 2y agoThis seems more like a very skilled caregiver to me, I would be absolutely overwhelmed in this position.
- User23 2y agoWhich is quite remarkable, because up until less than a century ago when women “entered the workforce” virtually every woman who had ever lived somehow managed to care for her 3+ children. Incidentally, large families do scale sublinearly with respect to the parents. The reason why is that even with merely natural spacing by the time they have a fourth child, the oldest is in a position to provide significant assistance. Every mother with a large family that I’ve spoken to confirms that the difficulty peaks with the third child and then plateaus.
- ativzzz 2y agoIt is remarkable. I have one child, and it is by far the hardest thing I've ever done - far harder than any job I've had. It doesn't help that both parents are working full time. Maybe parenting has changed recently and we are too hands-on, but I can't imagine having 2, much less 3+ running around. Even if one of us stops working to raise the kids full time, it's way more taxing, physically and mentally, than working a white collar job and paying for child care.
- KittenInABox 2y agoI recall before we lived in nuclear families [somewhat recent phenomenon] communal raising was commonplace. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, neigbours, etc. would come help.
- myroon5 2y ago> Maybe parenting has changed It has: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-now-spend-twice-as-much-time-with-their-children-as-50-years-ago https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-...
- jimbokun 2y ago3 children. If it's 10, 20, 30, this doesn't work. This is the entire point, that care work does not scale like manufacturing or farming or software or entertainment or...
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- m3t4man 2y agoI disagree. Frustration wouldn't come from having to care for 10-30 people, but from inadequate systems that would fail to facilitate effective care for this many people simultaneously. Id bet if there was a reliable and effective means for 1 person to take care of 10-30 people, it wouldn't be a problem. In summary, imho, the problem here isn't capacity to emotionally care for this many people, but means of taking care. I think the problem is we don't collectively invest enough resources (both material and cognitive) to figure out how to do something like this well.