Childcare Needs Quotes

When push comes to shove, my children always come first, and I am lucky that I work in an environment that respects that.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And the children have to come first. It's no use putting off their evening meal for two months.

Ranveer was almost three when I began my second stint. I took up TV assignments so that I could have enough time at home. While being 24/7 with my child was amazing and his company stimulating, I missed adult conversations.

I loved my job at the paper. I loved meeting new people every day and never knowing where I would end up. But somehow, the ever-shifting schedules of a police officer and a reporter did not equal 'family friendly.' One of us needed to take a normal job for the sake of our young daughter.

For parents who work, afterschool programs can be a crucial support system, but too many communities have limited options.

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

I need the help of my nannies, but I don't want my children being raised in something that resembles a group home.

In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options.