Childcare Breakdowns In The Workforce

As a child, I’ve seen my parents focused the majority of their time and energy at their work to provide for our family. In 2000, the U.S Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics had recorded that working couples with children under 18 years of age worked an average of 66 hours a week compared to couples without children, who worked an

This could be one of the reasons accounting for 71.6 per cent of all part-time employees being women, 54.7 per cent as casual employees, and only 36.7 per cent of all full-time employees (ABS, 2015). In one study amongst married heterosexual parents working full-time in America, the division of household labour showed that mothers were mostly responsible for scheduling children’s activities while fathers were mostly responsible for discipline, play time, and household chores (Pew Research Centre, 2015, p. 2). This labour is entirely placed upon 83 per cent of single parents with dependent children which are mothers; with only 56 per cent of that group being employed (ABS, 2015, para. 3). In 2016, women working full-time earned an average of 16.2 per cent less than men (ABS, 2016). Connecting these statistics, it can be proposed that single parenthood pushes women into poverty as they are unlikely to work enough hours each week to afford placing children in day-care centres. Before the Child Care Benefit and the Child Care Rebate, day care costs between $70-200 per day (Elliot, 2017, para. 4). Whether single mothers are working or taking care of their children, they financially suffer either way. Additionally, single older women also suffer housing crisis as they are less likely to have been the owners of their residence throughout their life leaving them less likely to be granted housing (Darab & Harmann, 2013). Homelessness amongst

Some families are not able to provide childcare when they need it for their kid(s). “The cost and the scarcity of day care have helped create what sociologist Joya Misra calls “the motherhood penalty”” (Quart). Some families have to have only one income so that one parent could stay home to watch the kid(s). Single parents have to move in with their parents for help because they can not afford the care. People should not have to quit their jobs to take care of their kids when there are multiple daycare facilities.

Over the past five to six decades women have been entering the workforce in ever increasing numbers. Some enter because of financial need and others for professional and career goals. Whatever the reason, the result for the children is the same; they are in daycare. Many

Childcare or “daycare” is one of the most commonly used resources among Americans in the United States. There are many options for childcare that parents could choose from. The cost of childcare has risen dramatically over the past year, and no one really knows who to blame for it. The average cost for one child in a childcare facility ranges from $100-$350 a week. The government offers families subsidies for childcare, but that’s only if your income is low. What about the hard working middle class families that are still struggling to pay the high cost of childcare? How will they provide childcare for their kids?

Roughly four-in-ten mothers say they have taken a significant amount of time off from work (39%) or reduced their work hours (42%) to care for a child or other family member. Roughly a quarter (27%) say they have quit work altogether to take care of these familial responsibilities...(Patten, 2015 [see figure 3]).

According to Statistics Canada, the amount of two parented full time working families has gone up 17% since the 1980’s. As a result of such an outcome, more employees in larger and smaller based companies are finding it harder to keep up with both risen work loads and home life necessities, which in turn have caused more absentees in the work place. The reason being for this is due to

Americans that work too many long shifts affect the lives of the people around them too. For instance, one statistic from a Family Matters Survey done by The National Partnership for Women & Families in 1998 found that, “70% of working fathers and working mothers report they don’t have enough time for their children”.Another statistic from this survey reported that over 80% of Americans found it diffcult to balance their work life and their personal life. In fact, it is estimated that around 11 million children age 5 and under spend time in a form child care facility every week(Child Care Aware of America). It is also estimated that children whose

Working parents face a dilemma each summer—who's going to care for the children? Why pay for a daycare or a babysitter when you could instead choose a program that includes Math and ELA, science classes, and more from a licensed teaching staff. We also have after school programs to fill in the care gap through the end of your work day.

The cost of child care in the United States is skyrocketing. The Economic Policy Institute even found that, in 23 states, full-time care for a 4-year-old cost more than in-state tuition at a public college!

Janet has two kids that go to a daycare 17 miles away from her job. Each morning she is rushing to drop them off and make it to work in time. Each evening she is rushing from work to pick them up. Sometimes she has to stay at home with her kids or even leave from work to get them because they are sick which makes her and her employer lose money. That’s why daycare should be in a workplace. Janet’s story is just one of many stories out there regarding the situation of daycare and work. Day Care in a workplace is very important to many parents and children. There is many benefits to it too.

In an area where so many households require two incomes in order to survive, child care has become a necessity. Unfortunately, there are many issues within the daycare structure that impair parent’s ability to go to work, or forces parents to take time off they cannot afford. The parents who are unable to work because the cost of daycare is too expensive that face issues with gaps in their employment history, which reduces their future ability to be hired and the pay rate they will receive. Parents who end their children to day care, but the day care does not cover all of the hours needed face the issue of missing work, therefore making a bad impression upon their employer. The Daycare system needs to be more affordable and offer more hours in order to be a greater benefit to families.

Among the membership the Association for Health Professionals, the majority of us must juggle the complicated balance between work and our families. If you are not included, then you are probably in the planning stages of starting a family or have a close friend or family member with the same struggles. In fact, there are currently 30 million working families in the United States (Stoltzfus, 2015). While significant strides have been made in fostering a more diverse family friendly environment, many employers of those we represent are still lagging strongly behind. Only 39 percent of workers have access to employer-sponsored dependent care reimbursement accounts, and only 11 percent have access to workplace-funded childcare (Stoltzfus, 2015).

One of the largest obstacles presented to Working Class families is affordable childcare. Mothers of working class families began “going to work” in large numbers in the early 1970s. Today almost every family needs two working adults, which leaves the question, who will care for the children? The average childcare bill is $1,500 to $2,000 a month (Rubin 1994). In the budget created for the Stratification Assignment the safest and most affordable childcare found was $1,280 a month for a nine month old and eight year old. This was the family’s largest monthly expenditure. In her book, Rubin interviews a woman who said, “We couldn’t pay our bills if we had to pay somebody to take care of the kids”. For many families this means they have to consider an alternative solution, different

In most modern industrialized countries, the proportion of working mothers with children under 18 greatly increased in the last few decades of the 20th century, to the point that one-half of all mothers with children under 5 are in the workforce.