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From: pharper@ucbcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Working parents and sick kids
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Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 15:33:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 11 15:33:00 1984
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Nf-From: ucbcad!pharper    Jun 18 11:33:00 1984

The care of sick children in two career families is a BIG problem.
So far my husband and I have managed by using our sick leave and 
taking occasional vacation days and even time off without pay.  
We are fortunate to have employers who allow us to use our time 
this way; I realize that many employers consider the use of all available 
paid leave to be grounds for dismissal.  I recently heard that in 
Berkeley a group of people has opened a sick-child care center.
Children who are past the contagious stages of their diseases, but
who are still recuperating, are accepted on as needed basis.  The 
staff includes a nurse who screens the children to assure that they
are not contagious.  The cost is $4.50 an hour if I remember correctly.  
Their primary goal was to assist parents who may have more than one 
child come down with a communicable disease in sequence.  Such occurances,
as I recall from childhood, can easily keep a parent out of the work
force for several months.  

                                     --Patty Harper

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