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It's relatively hard to get a daycare spot for under 1 year. We were lucky to have a daycare in our apartment complex (Southern Germany) which takes kids from t
by danieldk 12y ago
It's relatively hard to get a daycare spot for under 1 year. We were lucky to have a daycare in our apartment complex (Southern Germany) which takes kids from three months and up.
In The Netherlands it's pretty normal to bring kids to daycare from 3 or 6 months.
In the end, there is often a salary hit though. My wife started working less. Also, there is no extra time anymore - on working days, we always go home at 17:00 sharp.
- ido 12y agoYes, that's why I wrote 1 year and not 3 months :) That's still not that huge a portion of a typical ~40 years career (unless you have a lot of children - I think the average for western Europe is somewhere between 1 and 2 kids) and you'd get parental leave payments during that time. So sure it probably hurts your combined income but I think it's very rarely a 50% reduction as suggested by OP saying he needs to double his salary to stay at the same level.