Affordability: Child-Care Costs For Children

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Affordability is the extrinsic characteristic most frequently mentioned by researchers, providers and consumers of child care (Barnes et al., 2006). The cost of child care at times have been linked to quality of care (Scarr, 1998. Demanding regulations raise the quality of care and give more assurance of children's well-being, but they also increase the cost. More expensive regulations price more working parents out of licensed care and force them to use unregulated home care equality (Scarr, 1998). Child-care costs for children under 3 tend to be much higher on average than child-care costs for children >3, in both the public and private sectors. Unlike private child-care, the cost of public care depends on income and family composition and