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28-year-old mom's teacher salary largely goes toward child care—the real costs of quitting to stay home with your kids
Like many families throughout the U.S., Amanda, 28, and Carlos, 36, are wrestling with the cost of child care. Currently, they both work full-time jobs, but Amanda would like to stop working for a few years to spend time at home raising their daughters …