There are low wages, no liability insurance coverage and prohibitive start up costs to look forward to if one wants to become a child care provider right now. As a child care aide I eventually left when I found I could earn more doing dishes than working with children. As for janitorial duties, people wanting to be janitors should have to work in child care facilities for a year to see if they can work with young adults. For medical purposes nurses and doctors should also have to work in child care centers for a year. To Get Rich . . .
Babysitters make a plethora of money, especially if they watch more than one child.
To Say About Latch Key Kids . . . Being a latch-key kid has played a bigger part in my life than I realized. Perhaps there is a taboo on being the child of a single, working parent, but my childhood was good. As soon as I was old enough, about age seven, I became a latch key kid, which was dangerous at times. I remember one place we lived where my next door neighbor was a drug dealer, a lady across the street drowned her three children in a lake, and a boy down the street was accident-alley shot.