Stage Six: Comment on a colleague’s work #1

Source: flintstonechildcare.com

An article published on March 28, 2014, from the blog The Eagle’s Nest named Child Care is a very interesting and important topic to discuss.  The author, Angela DeRiggi writes about how child care in the United States has become extremely expensive and it has put a burden on the below poverty families and including the middle class families. 

DeRiggi is a nanny who takes care of three children for a middle class family and analyses there financial crisis. I agree with her point of view, this middle class family needs to hire her because it is cheaper to have her services than to send the kids to child care and pay those expensive fees. 

DeRiggi also mentions how some families decide to not work and stay at home and take care of their children because it is cheaper. I have friends who have children, who work nights so that during the day they can take care of their children instead of sending them to child care. I know many who need the help of their elder parents to take care of their children because it is cheaper. 

I agree with DeRiggi, the government should provide free child care for the most needed or either child care needs to be cheaper for the low income and the middle class families. In order for our economy to be successful, we need working citizens in our communities who can peacefully leave their children in the hands of “affordable quality child care.”