Childcare
Thursday, 18 July, 2002
Picking up from my previous post, today there was an article in the Herald about babies and childcare: “Babies under nine months old in child care for more than 30 hours a week are likely to suffer negative effects on their intellectual development, according to a study.” It will be interesting to see whether any policy changes take place in the near future. (Incidentally, I got interested in this subject after reading The Essence of Feminism by Kirsten Birkett. In particular, the part where she talks about how women have won the right to work but the value of the wage has deteriorated so that now it takes two incomes to sustain a family when previously it could be sustained by one.)Posted in:
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I’m no queen of finance or anything, but there’s something I always sort of wondered… Supposively it takes two incomes to sustain a family… Is this family that it takes two incomes to sustain one of those families that has two brand new cars, brand name clothes, brand name food, etc.. or does it take two incomes to sustain a family that buys their clothes at Goodwill, buys the store brand food, and has an old junker for a car. I tend to think that the first family situation is the one that it takes two incomes to sustain. A family can be run on one income, regardless of what anyone tries to convince you, if you manage your money right and are able to sacrafice some luxary for the freedom to take care of your family yourself.
Just some food for thought.
Hi Karen,
We knew each other briefly a couple of years ago through bible study group at UNSW…Anyways, found your website through the niphal.com website.
Nice to see what your doing here. And it was a spin-out to come across the interview with Haydn Sennitt, who I knew also
Kirsten Birkett was talking about families running on one income on a comfortable minimum - enough for clothes, stationery, food, a car and not much else. I think, these days, if you run a family on one income without family allowance, you’re doing pretty well. And you’d be the exception.
Take a look at http://www.fulltimemothers.org. It’s a site I look after.