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Smaller class sizes, reduced childcare costs, more gardaí, a proposed ban on selling energy drinks to children as well as a clampdown on who can administer dermal fillers, are among the measures in Ireland’s draft programme for government document. The document was published on Wednesday as Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael held their parliamentary party […]
At that age, most of the kids are still in diapers, and the younger ones may still need help feeding themselves. You really can’t leave kids unattended at that age, or else you’ll come back to a Sharpie’d couch or a bag of flour coating the kitchen floor. They’re just too much to handle, and […]
Yes, we know the grandparents love their grandkids and that is beautiful. Love from Grandma and Grandpa are an entirely different kind of warm relationship. However, they tend to forget all of the chaos that comes with childcare. So when you have to do adult-level chores on top of caring for kiddos, things get very […]
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Mapped: The Annual Cost of Raising a Child in the U.S. This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. Although costs vary from family to family, two working parents […]
A little earlier, we covered comments that Liberal senator Jane Hume made this morning, in which she accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of “emboldening and enabling” antisemitic crimes including the firebombing of the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne and the vandalism of cars and buildings in Sydney’s east last month. We already detailed her remarks […]
It found that it limited care for lower-income families and their children without a substantial boost to the number of people available to enter the workforce. “The childcare subsidy activity test should be removed. Children’s participation in early childhood education and care should not depend on their parents’ activity,” it found. Families without access to […]
Thursday, September 26, 2024 U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure all contractors working with children are authorized to have to a nationwide background check. The new bill, which would amend the National Child Protection […]