Finally, the cost — we know we have to go to
disposable at child care and it seems like the start up costs for cloth are so high that it only pays if you stick with it which we can only do for 9 months.
Some families cloth diaper in the evenings or only weekends, other families cloth diaper except for when their
children are
at day
care, and still some families are easing into cloth for the first time, but are not ready to give over their
disposable diapers.
Among them are deleterious effects on
children of unregulated and often substandard childcare; [9] lost productivity for employers due to parents missing work to handle gaps in childcare or to
care for a sick
child; [10] lost wages and reduced retirement benefits for parents who have to drop out of the labor market to provide
at - home
care for their young
children; [11] a substantial downward pressure on the wages of childcare workers with effects on the quality and stability of the childcare workforce; [12] and lost opportunities for further education, [13] college savings, and other investments that working parents could make in themselves and their
children but can not afford because they are spending most or all of their
disposable income on childcare.