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  1. 🗞️ CPC-CG member Professor Athina Vlachantoni and CPC-CG Co-Director Professor Maria Evandrou (Department of #Gerontology at University of #Southampton) recently wrote an article examining why white British #families are more likely to depend on #grandparents for #childcare, drawing on findings from #UnderstandingSociety data.

    Head to section 5 of the latest #ChangingPopulations magazine to read the article: sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05

    #family #demography #ageing #workingparents #childcarecosts

  2. My spouse, who holds a degree, wants to go back to work, but the cost of childcare negates or exceeds any income she'd make, so she's compelled to stay at home.

    And we have it "good."

    American parents today are actively disincentivized to have children, and it sucks. 😓

    apnews.com/article/daycare-chi

    America’s child care crisis is holding back moms without college degrees

    #uspol #parenting #ChildcareCosts

  3. The support with childcare costs for those on Universal Credit at least used to be on the basis of you have to pay for the childcare and claim a share of it back. If that is still the case you still need to be able to afford to pay the fees up front and only get paid back for a percentage of it in about a month's time.

    #UniversalCredit
    #Childcare
    #ChildcareCosts