The lack of child care availability and affordability has forced many parents — especially mothers — to put their own careers on hold or reduce their hours. But how can you balance that with household expenses? smasunaga reports:
While child-care startups have seen an influx of money and interest from investors in the last year, the industry’s challenges run deep.Sofia Tavitian and her daughter, Luna Tavitian-Monterrosa, visit Brand Park in Glendale. The single mom said it was not realistic to pay for child care while working as a third-grade teacher.
“Financially, it was just better because I would save that money doing the job I knew I wanted,” she said. She later returned to the workforce and was employed as an in-home caregiver for an elderly woman until about a year ago, when her daughter was sent home from school due to a COVID-19 exposure on campus. With no other child-care options available, Marquez had to take her daughter to work with her at her patient’s home.
During this time, she also separated from her husband and moved from San Francisco to Contra Costa County to be near family. Her children changed schools and her daughter’s new kindergarten class is in session from 8 to 11:30 a.m., making it hard for her to find work. Unlike in San Francisco, after-school programs are not as available or affordable.
It keeps him closer to home than his reality TV jobs — something that was especially important after he and his wife welcomed their first child in November 2020. And he made more money working for himself than he ever did when he was on a company’s payroll, Chong said. “We’d pretty much be working to pay for child care,” said Chong, 38, who lives in Carson. “We’re pretty much in a rip curl of making money to spend money.”
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