Quotes About Childcare

#1. I've seen straight, partnered women explain their decision to stay at home by noting that childcare would have taken too much out of their paycheck - as if this cost was just theirs to bear!

Jessica Valenti

#2. Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

Maya Harris

#3. I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'

Maya Harris

#4. The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

Noam Chomsky

#5. John Watson, a leading childcare authority in the 1920s, sternly advised parents, 'Never hug and kiss [your children], never let them sit in your lap. If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say goodnight. Shake hands with them in the morning.'22

Yuval Noah Harari

#6. Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.

Lucy Powell

#7. We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.

Jackie Speier

#8. Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

Tim Johnson

#9. If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.

Eric Braeden

#10. Accounting for the unpaid care economy can drive progressive policies such as paid family leave, social security credits for early childcare, tax credits, and quality early childhood education.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#11. That did explain his sucky home life growing up but didn't excuse the way he treated others. Was there childcare for abused werewolves?

Jazz Feylynn

#12. The first time I learned I could sell myself was when I convinced a wealthy American family to give me a job as a nanny. Childcare. Totally unqualified. But I learned to be ready for anything. And that I can adapt. That I can become the best diaper changer.

Scott Raab

#13. Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.

Bernie Sanders

#14. My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.

Tom Hodgkinson

#15. Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#16. In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and make precious little time available for their offspring, preferring instead to hire in childcare and shower them with the latest and most expensive gadgets.

Martin Jacques

#17. Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

Katherine Rundell

#18. I believe employment regulations for women, whereby the prospective employer is not able to inquire about the interviewee's status regarding children, childcare, or indeed their intention of becoming a parent, are counterproductive.

Alan Sugar

#19. I don't think most people realise the practical problems associated with prostitution; childcare is a major issue, believe me. I wanted to be a good mother. I wanted more than anything to be a good mother. Sweet

Nick Roddy

#20. For parents - women in particular - good quality, affordable childcare is vital.

Nicola Sturgeon

#21. Inside the (Domestic) Sphere women did things which weren't too demanding like childcare, scrubbing the floor, washing the sheets and curtains, sewing on buttons, and coalmining.

Jacky Fleming

#22. And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

James Levine

#23. A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

Jim Wallis

#24. People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

Zadie Smith

#25. Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

Mem Fox

#26. The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#27. I'm fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#28. Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

Allison Pearson

#29. A simple act of kindness goes a long way in your relationship with your caregiver

Kristen J. Duca

#30. It is very important to keep the communication lines flowing so that you develop mutual admiration and respect.

Kristen J. Duca

#31. Balance in impossible; memories are better. (TILT-7 Solutions To Be A Guilt-free Working Mom)

Marci Fair

#32. If you work together as a team, the arrangement should be positive and beneficial to all involved.

Kristen J. Duca