Crunching numbers or turning out a spread sheet while baby is whimpering or adolescents are lobbying for a trip to the mall hardly seems conducive to professional fulfillment. For most, day care will have to do. One mom in Suffolk County recalled inspecting a child care center only to find all staff members were ill that day except the custodian. Pressed into service, the fellow was frantically trying to feed children their bottles and carry out other babysitting duties. Needless to say we went elsewhere.
Child care is an equal opportunity problem.
Wohl says there are 110,000 day-care centers in the United States and experts agree the number does not begin to meet the needs of the approximately 29 million children nationally under the age of 13 who have both parents or their only parent in the workforce. No one expects changes to come quickly. But, say parents, the need is now. The kids go to bed at 8 p.m. You try to make up for it on weekends. Recently, Fabio and Jane Stanzini of Eastport became a one-income couple.