Comment by bparsons
5 months ago
This is the big reason other countries have free or cheap childcare. People who have kids want to continue earning money, and people who earn money want to have kids. It can be easily justified using only an economic productivity argument.
Very few other countries have free childcare. In Europe I'm only aware of Slovenia and a couple others. Canada doesn't have anything close to the universal system that's in New Mexico.
Slovenia doesn’t have free healthcare, only subsidized.
Source: https://www.gov.si/teme/znizano-placilo-vrtca/
Childcare, not healthcare. Like babysitting
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Russia and some other ex-Soviet states have it, as a leftover of the Soviet system. But it persists because people find it essential.
Berlin, Germany. Admission from 1.5 y.o.
In which country there is a cheap childcare, especially if we are talking about children under 3?
Also even if it is cheap, children can attend it few days a week, staying sick at home almost every week for a day or two. Not every employer can tolerate such worker.
> In which country there is a cheap childcare, especially if we are talking about children under 3?
Norway. The maximum price for barnehage (kindergarten Norwegian style) is 1 200 NOK per month, about 120 USD, but never more than 6% of the household's income. Every child is guaranteed a place. Families with low income get 20 hours a week 'core time' free. Children can attend from one year old until they start school at five or six.
See https://www.statsforvalteren.no/innlandet/barnehage-og-oppla...
> In which country there is a cheap childcare, especially if we are talking about children under 3?
France AFAICT
https://www.newsweek.com/us-mom-unpacks-costs-child-care-par...
https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/explainer-how-childcare...
My kids very rarely got sick in pre-school (1-5 years old) or in school. Make sure they sleep enough and you are usually good.