JD Vance Promotes Outlandish Idea to Reduce Day Care Costs

JD Vance managed to amass further critique online with his recent comments about lowering daycare costs. In an Arizona interview, Vance said that families could alleviate childcare expenses by simply enlisting the help of relatives, such as aunts or grandparents.

“One of the things that we can do, is make it easier for families to choose whatever model they want,” Vance said. “One of the ways that you might be able to relieve a little bit of the pressure on people is… maybe grandma or grandpa wants to help out a little bit more. Or maybe there’s an aunt or uncle that wants to help out a little bit more.”

Vance also proposed making it easier for individuals to become daycare workers by reducing educational and certification requirements.

“What we have to do is actually empower people to get trained in the skills that they need for the 21st century,” Vance said. “We got a lot of people who love kids, who would love to take care of kids,” he added, saying, “Don’t force every early child care specialist to go and get a six-year college degree.”

Numerous parents took to social media to shred his suggestions, arguing that relying on family for childcare is far from a viable solution for most parents, and that the education requirements for daycare workers are not as burdensome as he believes.

Social media users were quick to call out Vance’s seeming disconnect from the realities faced by most working parents in today’s economy.

“He really is clueless and out of touch. People asking family members to care for their kids is not a policy solution,” one X user commented.