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Outsourcing toddler chaos to professionals braver than any soldier.
means A facility where trained staff supervise and care for young children while parents work or otherwise need their hands free.
from A plain twentieth-century mashup of day plus care, born when factory work pulled mothers from home and someone had to mind the babies.
Germ economyKids trade immune systems like sticky baseball cards.
Cost shockOften pricier than a year of college.
Roman rootsWealthy Romans used nutrices, hired caretaking nurses.