...2004?...maybe sooner, like 2001?
My kid gets sick, and there's no such thing as sick child care... I have 3 kids, so they will cycle through an illness and even drag me into it sometimes, that's WEEKS away from work...
Instead i take what freelancing work i can and rely on food stamps to make up the difference, it isn't easy and we are definitely in poverty...BUT I am home when they get off the bus and there for them if they have to go to the doctor or something. (since my daughter has a medical issue, we need to have tests done 1-2x per year in the big city, more often as she approaches puberty) I wish we could have more and do more like other families...we have never been on a real vacation or gone to an amusement park...but we get lots of enjoyment out of our natural surroundings so hopefully they will turn out okay... 
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