Parents from North Fort Myers to North Naples open checkbooks weekly to write day-care checks. The number of children also may affect price. Some day-care providers serve as few as three children. Others have 375. What's more, the checks parents write for full-time child care may not cover everything.
Parents even pay for vacation time.
Ten percent of her annual household income goes for day care. She's not complaining about it, but she says the costs force sacrifices. We go without some things. Light's 1987 GMC Jimmy is on its last legs with more than 100,000 miles. Day care costs primarily are driven by ratios of workers to children.