
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, October 6, 1995                   TAG: 9510060065
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

CHILD CARE COST $74; 9.9 MILLION RECEIVED IT

Families with working mothers spent an average of $74 a week, or about 8 percent of their monthly income, to care for preschool children in 1993, the Census Bureau said Thursday.

A total of 9.9 million children under age 5 were in need of child care in 1993 while their mothers were at work, according to a Census report, ``What Does It Cost to Mind Our Preschoolers?'' The principal child care arrangements were family members, 41 percent; organized child care facilities, 30 percent; family day care settings, 17 percent.

Families with two or more preschool children paid $110 per week for child care, or about 11 percent of their monthly family income, the study found.

Poor families paid a much larger portion of their incomes - about 18 percent - on such care in 1993.

- Associated Press

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