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Re: Draft Child Care - tough on part time/shift workers

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From: Annette
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:00
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E Bywater wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 09 Oct 1997 15:49:29 +0800, Annette <ntsoft@iinet.net.au>
> wrote:
> 
> SNIPPED

> >I work 3 nights a week, sole parent.

<snip>
> 
> Hi Annette,
> 
> So you need to use child care because you are both working, well the
> cost of you both having jobs is increased expenditure on child care.
> Simple solutions are:
> 

NO - It means that I work.
There IS no 'both of us'.
I work shift work 3 nights per week.


but thanks anyway
Annette

> a.    Only one works,
> b.    Don't have kids if you both want to work,
> c.    Accept that having kids while you both work involves extra costs
>       and just pay them instead of whinging.
> 
> After ny son's birth my wife said that she had no intention of staying
> at home and went back to work so we just accepted that this meant
> we had to pay for child care as it was part of the costs of being a
> two income family, like two train fares or two cars, etc.
> 
> Ernest
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From: Annette <ntsoft@iinet.net.au>
Subject: Re: Draft Child Care - tough on part time/shift workers
Date: 1997/10/16
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