It's a living room that looks like any young parent's.
Facing the sofa, a large play mat is spread out on the parquet, toys are scattered everywhere.
Because, this morning, Olivia, 18 months old, doesn't know if she wants to play with dolls, assemble cubes or draw a picture.
His mother, Helen, ran an NGO.
She now only works one day a week.
The other days, she takes care of her youngest.
“Our eldest, who is 4 years old, is at the crèche, she likes it a lot.
But if we had placed our two daughters there, it would have cost us 40,000 euros per year.
This is the price of a year of schooling in a private high school!”
Crazy costs, which have increased by more than 40% in the last eight years.
National Education Minister Jason Clare recently called them a
“huge hurdle”
for many Australian parents, particularly women, to return to work.
According to official statistics, one in three mothers of a child under…
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