Yesterday a national study of the National Institute of Statistics was published in which it is estimated that parents of children who go to daycare perform an average annual disbursement of 1,581 euros, 26% more than it costs to pay a year of University (about 1250 euros per year), studies that had always been considered as the most expensive phase in personal training.
These data focus on those children who go to private daycare centers, since they are the majority, specifically 55% of Spanish children.
The rest of the children are distributed in 34% who go to public nurseries, with an average expenditure of 356 euros per year and almost 11% who do so to subsidized private centers where the disbursement is about 1,387 euros.
These expenses are increased by other services such as the dining room with an average cost of 534 euros for children who use this service in public nurseries and 830 euros in private ones.
To all these expenses you have to add indirect expenses or "invisible." They do not charge them directly, but they do cost.
Many children end up suffering from various acute diseases that lead them to have to stay at home, go to medical visits, etc. causing some of the parents to stop working, request holidays or look for third parties who can take care of the children. The days that children do not go to the nursery are not discounted from the fee to be paid.
I get the feeling that something is wrong when the maternity leave covers up to three and a half months, when in a couple the two members must work to pay for their flat and the table bread and when the public nursery places serve only to a third of the child population.
The demand to the government for the creation of new nursery places is constant as are the promises of politicians who say they will. However, the system seems to be unfeasible according to the results.
Perhaps lengthening maternity leave and increasing child support would allow many children to spend more time with their parents, generate less expense and receive more "personalized" emotional care.
The problem is that companies would be without many of their workers for longer and They would shout their voice.
Nowadays, as the citizens complain rather little, putting in the balance the complaints of the businessmen on one side and the silence of the citizen on the other, the second seems more peaceful, even if it does not work.
