In an ironic self-perpetuating cycle, parents need to pay for child care so they can afford to work long hours, but the child care itself places a strain on their budget that must be corrected with increased income.
She acknowledges that she has to be better at appreciating Greg's difficulties in juggling both child care and unpredictable work.
Most excuses are less creative: doctor's order, child-care issues, work that can't be missed, a planned once-in-a-lifetime vacation.
And I think General Cartwright made it very clear how health and nutrition, our child care facilities, the work that we do to support our military families, this is all about the same thing in so many ways.
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Still, I know I'm online far more than I need to be for either work or child care.
And I think whether it is struggling with child care because you have to work longer, whether it is capping the payments that you have to make when you borrow money to go to college, or providing a genuine sense of security in retirement is important for the American people.
Exemptions are typically limited to hardship cases tied to work or child-care situations, for example, or those for cause.
In return, the department agreed to allow her to continue to work at a child care facility as long as she was not the licensee or the owner.
Pakistani men allocate the same amount of time to paid work, housework and child care as Swedish men.
That means offering payment and promotion on merit, more temporary and part-time work, and better child care, maternity leave and job prospects for their female staff.
The Democratic Party's stance of supporting child-care, equal pay for equal work and raising the minimum wage rallies women and Latinos behind the party, said Olga Vives, a Cuban-American who is vice-president of the National Organization for Women.
DeParle describes the lives of two white working class, college-educated women who work together at a Michigan child care center.
On the debt side are taxes (most notably, payroll taxes), work-related expenses including child care, medical out-of-pocket expenses, and child support payments.
Extensive research in 16 OECD countries has shown that there is a strong correlation between high female employment rates and large government cash transfers to families, generous replacement pay during parental leave, the availability of plenty of part-time work and lots of formal child care.
Some parents were forced to give up work completely to care for their child.
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They looked at parental leave, the protection of part-time work, and public spending on child care.
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"Child friendly means both good medical care and staff that work well with babies and children, " Petrack says.
"A lot of families can't afford food and need food stamps and health care, even just child care so they can finish school or go to work, " said McGrath, who volunteers with children at her local Police Athletic League.
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So, too, am I encouraged that the president has proposed incentives to make child care more affordable, which is critical to helping families work while ensuring children start school ready to learn.
To make it possible for women to combine work and family, the state provided comprehensive child care, and a year off for each baby.
The most pathetic of these victims are the high-earning slobs who live middle-class life-styles because of the high costs in cities where they must work and the draining expense of things like child care.
Indeed the state of Wisconsin, which increased its budget for child care as part of its drive to persuade welfare mothers to work, has found that much of the extra cash has gone unclaimed: many mothers seem to prefer flexible unpaid arrangements with people their children already know.
If you pay someone to watch your qualifying child or dependent (generally, a child under age 13) while you work or look for work, you can, in theory claim the Child and Dependent Care Credit.
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Second earners in a household may also not find work at a high enough wage to justify the costs of commuting or child care.
Neither of them exactly spoils its families with financial inducements or state-provided child care, but their flexible labour markets make it easy for women to get back into work after childbirth, and public opinion approves of working mothers.
The government's child-care strategy is not wrong in principle, but ministers also have to show that it will work, and that remains to be seen.
The argument over child care has also changed perceptions of the government, by showing how hard it is for the two parties to work together.
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