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Outsourcing the hardest job on earth to someone you pay less than your plumber.
means A place where other people's children are supervised, fed, and kept alive during the hours their parents are at work.
from A plain, functional compound — 'day' plus 'care' — stitched together in American English in the mid-20th century as women entered the paid workforce in greater numbers and needed a word for supervised childcare outside the home. No myth here, just need meeting vocabulary: the word is as practical as the service it names.
- cost
- often exceeds in-state college tuition per year
- illness math
- germ incubator that returns your kid sicker, smarter
- origin
- scaled up from wartime factory worker childcare
- real value
- teaches sharing better than any parent can