re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth

Child care providers make so little they can’t afford care for their own kids

In Germany, it is the case that preschool teachers cannot begin to live off their own state pensions.

Child care was always a low priority in West Germany, because they wanted to distinguish themselves from East Germany, where almost all children were in day care because their mothers were working.

West Germany wanted to highlight itself as a land of Mothers Who Stay Home.

They have made a lot of progress, and are certainly ahead of the USA in most respects, but still far behind their actual needs of a society where most mothers work out of economic necessity and not out of feminist egotism…