Childcare solutions used & satisfaction
If you needed childcare in the past 10 years, what childcare solutions (e.g., childcare center/nursery, nanny, family support, adjusted work schedule, etc.) did your family end up using? Are you satisfied with the availability of childcare options in your country of employment, why or why not?
We used a daycare center for our two kids - this gave us about 7 hours of work time a day. My son is 19 now and my daughter 15 - so back then, there was no waiting list for us. We were very happy with the options we had.
Joined multiple waitlists?
Did you join multiple childcare waitlists while searching for care?
No
Biggest challenges & their impact
Looking back, what were the biggest childcare challenges (e.g., long waiting times, affordability, quality, location, etc.) your family faced? How did these challenges impact your work and family life?
Even with childcare, it was difficult to keep both of our careers. My wife made sacrifices, and this still bothers both of us. As immigrants, we have no other family around to help.
One thing to change
If you could change one thing about today's childcare system, what would it be? (For example: access, affordability, quality, employer or university support, emergency backup care, or anything else.)
I think I would try to find a more communal living situation with multiple families with children. Pooling resources across multiple families that can trust each other is what I would recommend my own children to do when they have families.
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