Some parents are deciding to leave the workforce, lean on family, or cobble together a patchwork of caregivers, as it often costs at least $12,000 a year per child.
Tyler and Amy Salovin, with daughters Nora, 4, and Elena, 1, pay $26,000 a year for childcare for two kids in Delaware County.not having any more kids,
“People in the middle-class range, it’s hard to afford these things, but we don’t qualify for any kind of funding,” said Amy Bobb, a 37-year-old social worker and mother of four who lives in It’s a topic that’s personal to Taylor, whose daughter, born in 2020, was on day-care waiting lists for more than a year. About a month after she got into a center, the facility had to close its infant room due to staffing issues.
“I knew day care was expensive, but I guess I didn’t put into perspective how much it would be,” said Carmen Luong, 29, of South Philadelphia. “It’s a whole mortgage payment or rent basically.” Even if they had wanted to get their daughter into a childcare facility two years ago, the timeline wouldn’t have worked out with Lane’s maternity leave.
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