Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
"When the economy is bad and people are uncomfortable about their financial future, they tend to postpone having children. We saw that in the Great Depression the 1930s and we're seeing that in the Great Recession today," said Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University.
There's also the fact that I've seen that for people near or at the poverty line, childcare costs are %50 of income, even above that it's something like %25.
for people near or at the poverty line, childcare costs are %50 of income
Yikes! I did not know that.
How are they even allowed to get away with that? How is that not illegal?
I can vouch for that. My annual child care costs have always run around $12K; sometimes more.
That's like...a car a year!
My annual child care costs have always run around $12K; sometimes more.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
$12K
::weeps::
That's like...a car a year!
They are very expensive.
Major cities worse, of course, poor Sparky. (Athens GA, $125 a week per kid is standard; Durham NC major centers were $1200-$1400 a month for an infant. I remained stunned by how cheap it is down here.)
If you have to pay for childcare, there's only so cheap it can get in the first few years. New York State has "universal pre-kindergarten," but it's only a partial day, so you'd still have to pay for the rest of the time, assuming full-time work. Even on a sliding scale, it's not that cheap....
Oh! I just realized I can blame Cee-Lo for the fact that I said "Fuck you!" right to my coworker's face at lunch. In a jovial way, but still. (She was saying that Kat von D isn't an artist.)