Diaper crisis among poor families endangers children, study finds (interview, solution, how much)
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"Cloth diapers are often not an option because they require frequent and expensive trips to the laundromat."
Expensive? really? Last time I was in a laundromat, it was less than 2 bucks to run a washer. What's it up to these days, 30 bucks? If you don't have a washer at home, you gotta go do laundry anyhow.
Modern disposable diapers are a luxury. Disposable diapers are really nice, but if I was making 15,000 a year and couldn't afford them, I'd just use Cloth diapers, which are FAR more cost effective, but they do require more effort.
This is like saying because I can't afford a brand new car, I can't get a job.
"Cloth diapers are often not an option because they require frequent and expensive trips to the laundromat."
Expensive? really? Last time I was in a laundromat, it was less than 2 bucks to run a washer. What's it up to these days, 30 bucks? If you don't have a washer at home, you gotta go do laundry anyhow.
Modern disposable diapers are a luxury. Disposable diapers are really nice, but if I was making 15,000 a year and couldn't afford them, I'd just use Cloth diapers, which are FAR more cost effective, but they do require more effort.
This is like saying because I can't afford a brand new car, I can't get a job.
Or maybe you should go to school and keep your legs shut...just an idea..
83 means tested programs, over $1 trillion a year spent in welfare programs and these people are still too poor to buy diapers.
We have the richest poor in the world when cloth diapers require too much work, when going to the laundromat is now considered too expensive. Washing cloth diapers at the laundromat is more than $18/week ? That's what the article listed as the cost per week for diapers for one kid. Many of these poor have multiple kids in diapers at the same time.
I remember the diaper guy. Hed come by the house pick up the dirty diapers and leave clean ones. I was the youngest of 5 all a year apart, we literally had a mountain of dirty diapers to pick up. My mom took a picture of me on top of this mountain of diapers on the front porch waiting on the diaper guy
The woman they interviewed is a 41 year old single mother that doesn't work.
Where did she think all the money needed to raise a child was coming from if she doesn't work ?
And where's the father ?
I guess it's the stigma of being poor to have cloth diapers one has to wash.
Can't have the poor thinking they are poor now can we ?
Especially those that don't work because then there is no need for daycare.
Maybe we need another new means tested program..the Supplemental Diaper Program
Then you can see package of diapers put up on craigslist alongside the formula from the WIC program.
Another first world problem that people can't seem to figure out on their own. Only the wise and almighty knowing government can come up with a solution I'm sure. I mean how friggen hard is it to go to the sink and wash a gdam diaper out?
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