- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Child Care Quotes
On the real costs and stakes of raising the next generation.
These quotes ground child care in real numbers and real lives: a single mother juggling three kids while campaigning, rising rents outpacing wages, and research showing quality early education pays off for years. One line points to Norway's public system as proof another model is possible.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Top-quality public education, universal health care, and free child care are among the many benefits provided by the state in Norway, reflecting its long-standing egalitarian culture and spirit of communitarianism - a spirit that extends to its prisons.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putting babies as young as two weeks into child care for the first year of their life, for 60 hours a week, will cause their brains damage.
- Fantasize
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the best things we can do for our country, for advancing our children, is to upgrade our child care system.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for parents, no universal preschool and minimal safety nets for vulnerable families, making it a crime to offer children independence in effect makes it a crime to be poor.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kept working during my campaign because I needed to feed my family. As a single mom of three kids, I have a lot of child care that I needed to juggle, and I was a first-time candidate.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anything as simple as child care was covered by the league or your organization, that would be life-changing for moms, especially when we're scraping pennies. Maybe we would have more moms in this league if something like that was there for us, but I feel like we're far from that.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
There hasn't been any positive steps for moms in the NWSL. Now we're kind of getting our heads together, getting ideas together, and so now we can start somewhere as moms... Child care is not cheap. And if you look at our paychecks and you look at child care, there goes our paycheck. How are we going to eat?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are huge pain points experienced by parents. It's hard to find good child care options in one place. It's hard figure out things to do with your kids on the weekends or after school. It's hard to find iPad apps for your kids that you are confident are helping them learn vs. just being entertained.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn't afford child care; child care hours didn't work according to her schedule.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020