A Washington Post business page article, The surprising number of parents scaling back at work to care for kids, examines parents’ struggle with child care and work.

According to the article, “While it has long been clear that finding affordable, dependable child care is a daily challenge for parents of young children, the new poll provides rare data on the breadth of the problem and how it’s shaping careers for millions of American parents.”

More than three-quarters of mothers and half of fathers in the United States say they’ve passed up work opportunities, switched jobs or quit to tend to their kids, according to a new Washington Post poll.

Over half of parents find it difficult to find quality and affordable childcare, as the results of one poll question indicates:

It appears that child care may emerge as an issue in the upcoming Presidential campaign.

Dave Edie