[HN Gopher] Mothers are leaving the workforce, erasing pandemic ...
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Mothers are leaving the workforce, erasing pandemic gains
Author : danielam
Score : 7 points
Date : 2025-08-13 22:09 UTC (51 minutes ago)
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| potato3732842 wrote:
| As incomes decline relative to costs it makes sense for more
| people to stay home as the income is a wash compared to the cost
| savings of having a body at home full time to run the home.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| It doesn't make sense if you need both incomes to survive. It
| just pushes the total fertility rate down faster when
| prospective parents realize they cannot afford childcare nor
| one parent to remain at home.
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| https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-income-a-family-...
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| https://illumine.app/blog/how-much-childcare-costs-by-state-...
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| https://childcaredeserts.org/
| potato3732842 wrote:
| You can't "reduce the fertility rate" out of a kid you've
| already popped out. It's not households with people who can
| only provide value by working within their specialty that are
| electing to do this. It's households where the parent staying
| at home can provide value to the home beyond just babysitting
| the kids who are the first ones electing to do this.
| gedy wrote:
| Can only speak to the people I see and know around me, but many
| women I know don't want to work with small kids, even if daycare
| is available. And many women choose to delay or not to have kids
| so they can work. I know very few non wealthy working moms with
| preschool kids who like the situation.
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| Hell I don't want to work either ha.
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