Posted on 15. Nov, 2002 by Brian Reid in General
As best I can tell, the child care center industry is a $40 billion-or-so enterprise in the United States. That’s one heck of a big business, and it excludes services like nannies and the like. One of these days, I plan to do the math: what are at-home fathers (and, for that matter, at-home mothers) worth to the economy. That’s not to say that day care is bad or a poor choice. Instead, I want to illustrate the social impact of a couple of million socially rebelious fathers staying home with their children. As I think about marketing a book, I’m forced to think about how to quantify homedads, and I’d be willing to bet that the math here makes for a compelling stat.