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Find Natural Blogger, Ivana Pino recently was giving some advice on lowering daycare costs.

They're rising exponentially, by the way.

But one piece of advice was not found in Ivana Pino's suggestions.

What was that piece of advice about lowering daycare costs?

How about don't do daycare?

Welcome back to Issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to talk about the rising cost of daycare.

Suzanne Venker, she's a married mother of two children in St. Louis, host of the Suzanne Venker show.

She's author of several books including seven myths of working mothers and her latest publication,

How to get hitched and stay hitched.

She's also written a recent column for the Federalist titled Skyrocketing Child Care Costs.

Try staying home with your kids.

Suzanne, welcome back.

Thanks, Todd. Nice to talk to you.

How do many parents find themselves and their children trapped in kind of a daycare necessity trap?

So I think the most obvious and most common scenario is that they just didn't plan in advance for it.

It meaning having children.

We are just not as parents in a culture and the culture giving our young women advice on what's going to happen very likely to them when they have children.

And that is that they're most likely going to want to spend time with them and be home with them for X amount of years.

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