Daycare, WTF

I had never realized how expensive daycare was as this is not something I had heard most of my parent friends discuss before I had my own child. But because there is no national childcare subsudies and public daycare like there is for elementary school later, we were forces to pay over $2100 a month for 3 days a week of daycare. The place we have our daughter going is not even a fancy place, this is pretty standard nationwide. If instead, we had gone with 5 days a week, it was $3000 a month. When you are paying that much, you wonder whether it would be more cost affective to stay at home and do your own child care, before remember that even with 2 incomes, you would not be able to pay the mortgage and other bills. Only paying basic necessities, I always wonder how the working class is able to survive and why its so important to struggle against the owners of capital and wealth for a better life.