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Parents feel pinch of day care cost

Published 11/12/08

A quiet is falling over some Anne Arundel day cares, and not just during nap time.

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Local day care providers are starting to feel the pinch from tightening family budgets.

Centers that have had waiting lists for as long as anyone can remember now find themselves scrambling to find children to fill their nurseries and classrooms. And as day cares watch their enrollments shrink, more children could be put in possibly dangerous situations as parents turn to cheaper, or possibly unlicensed, care.

Many child care businesses are for the first time offering part-time services or are changing hours to accommodate the growing...

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Please put into your file that when Mrs. Pecilunas talked of putting her child in care with a friend she had her in unregistered care and in the State of Maryland that is against the law. It is a shame that she feels the $ is more important than the welfare of her child.

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