They may require 1-on-1 interaction, but generally the ratio for 0-2’s is 1:4.
And many childcare companies are owned by huge multi-billion dollar investment firms because they are cash generators.
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SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 5 days agoI read an interview, probably from NPR, but I can’t find it at the moment. The upshot was that caring for infants is insanely expensive, since they need one-on-one care pretty much continuously.
But parents can’t afford that cost, so, essentially, the price they charge for infant care is a loss-leader, and parents of older children (who need less supervision and thus more favorable staffing ratios) subsidize the cost of caring for infants. Daycare operators are barely keeping afloat.
Quokka@quokk.au 4 days ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
yucky, just like with MDs/nurses, MDs are being snatched up by teledoc and PE firms. so there is less private or specialists out there. the only other “common” one is based on a scam condition(chronic lyme)
alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Feels liké this would be solved with longer parental leave, but what do I know?
Town@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Are they required to provide for the more costly babies?
Eheran@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This is the only answer that is not just a hand waiving “investors bad”.