Fencer
Pro Bowl Player
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2006
- Messages
- 14,293
- Reaction score
- 3,986
I don't know where you live, but it's pretty common for two-income families to put their kids in daycare. In a country like the US, it happens extremely early for most kids, sometimes within the first 3 months.
Daycare in large cities can be expensive. In Toronto, it can run easily $1,300 to $1,500 for a decent one, more for a better one. Once you have two kids in daycare, it's often cheaper to hire a nanny. I know plenty of dual-income middle-class families with nannies for this reason, and I wouldn't consider any of them to be lesser parents for doing so.
I think this is quite frankly, a pretty terrible cheap-shot. We don't know Tom or Giselle, we don't know what kind of parents they are, and having a nanny really doesn't mean anything. I know it's popular to criticize other parents for things they do, but really, this was beyond the line of good taste.
I seem to have been misunderstood as criticizing the parenting. That was not my intent. I was merely pointing out spin.