Blog #6

Low income mothers are in need of child care but they face obstacles because of the cost of child care doesn’t meet with what they are earning while working. According to the power point child care is easily costing 4,000 to 6,000 on average per year. Many low income women are single mothers and are supporting their families by themselves on a minimum wage job. Even though they have a job many times it is hard for the mothers to pay for the child care because they have bills to pay and kids to feed. If they don’t have child care they will sometimes have to pleasure to have a family member watch their kids for cheap. On the other hand as the power point stated, “Many parents have no family nearby, or find their families too busy with their own jobs and children, to utilize their kin networks for child care.” Low wage paying jobs does not allow flexibility in anyone’s hours. With the child care that they could afford does not always accommodate to the times they need the child care so they are constantly asking for help. This care also leaves them not being able to choose the safe child care, or the place where they know their child will benefit from it. Safety is an important issue because in the low income housing it is a dangerous place.