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Child care is so expensive that it is very difficult to not have two working parents in order to afford

having children, like even at the public school level.

We talked about this idea that like a nanny is an easy button, but it's not really because

you have to register as a household employer on the days that, you know, the nanny gets paid

time off.

Like, what are you doing for child care?

If you want socialization, you don't want to pull your kid out of a social daycare setting.

We talked about Mother's Day Out existed before there were two working parents because it's

important for your two-year-old to learn how to talk to other people.

And so then you're at a point where you're paying for a nanny and a socialization program.

And like, that's very difficult to do without two incomes.

Welcome back to The Money with Katie Show. I'm Katie Gattie Tossan.

And today, we're talking about the biggest myths about being a working parent.

Because the child care situation in the United States is, in my mind, the lynchpin that

explains the vast majority of the gender wage and wealth gap data.

In the past, we've covered the national average costs for different types of child care, the almost exclusively female

child care workforce, and the general untenability of being a working parent. So we will link

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