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Full time childcare more than mortgage

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  • onlyroz
    onlyroz Posts: 17,661 Forumite
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    Moto2 wrote: »
    Don't relatives and friends help out any more?

    We're going to do 2 days/week for our grand daughter and her other grandparents are doing 2 days.
    I realise some people don't have relatives but surely most do and some arrangement can be made?
    These days most grandparents are still of working age, and this is only going to get worse as the state retirement age increases.

    Also, the population is now more mobile and many young professionals moved out of their home town years ago and so don't have family near by to impose on.
  • CLAPTON
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    Moto2 wrote: »
    Don't relatives and friends help out any more?

    We're going to do 2 days/week for our grand daughter and her other grandparents are doing 2 days.
    I realise some people don't have relatives but surely most do and some arrangement can be made?

    did friends ever help out without pay?
    if paid they would need to be qualified and vetted etc
  • Prothet_of_Doom
    Prothet_of_Doom Posts: 3,267 Forumite
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    The real problem is Grand parents who want a life and a career themselves. How dare they?
  • Moto2
    Moto2 Posts: 2,206 Forumite
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    did friends ever help out without pay?


    Of course they did

    I appreciate those in London/SE may find that an inconceivable prospect.
    Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
  • onlyroz
    onlyroz Posts: 17,661 Forumite
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    did friends ever help out without pay?
    if paid they would need to be qualified and vetted etc
    If they are deemed to have received "payment in kind" then they need to be qualified and vetted, e.g. if two people on a job share look after each other's kids while the other one is at work.
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,259 Forumite
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    Moto2 wrote: »
    Don't relatives and friends help out any more?

    We're going to do 2 days/week for our grand daughter and her other grandparents are doing 2 days.
    I realise some people don't have relatives but surely most do and some arrangement can be made?


    I wouldn't trust my kids with my parents (or should that be the other way around?) so it is lucky they live far enough away that it isn't an issue.
    I think....
  • Moto2
    Moto2 Posts: 2,206 Forumite
    michaels wrote: »
    I wouldn't trust my kids with my parents (or should that be the other way around?) so it is lucky they live far enough away that it isn't an issue.

    My grandad used to take me on his motorbike when I was about 5 and he was looking after me :)
    Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
  • CLAPTON
    CLAPTON Posts: 41,865 Forumite
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    Moto2 wrote: »
    Of course they did

    I appreciate those in London/SE may find that an inconceivable prospect.

    how when where did friends regularly look after other people's child for nothing?

    few 'friends' just sit around all day with nothing else to do but look after other peoples kids from 8am to 6 pm

    total fantasy


    ps. I don't live in the SE
  • Carl31
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    Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »
    The real problem is Grand parents who want a life and a career themselves. How dare they?

    how dare anyone that does not allow the middle class to have their cake and eat it?
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    Majority of people have a better quality of life than any previous generation and all they do is moan!

    WHO PAYS?

    A question that never gets asked.
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