When a child enters the world, someone -- or several people -- has to provide care for them. For most families today, to say it is a challenge to navigate a lack of accessible, affordable, quality child care options is an understatement.
For many families in Wisconsin, it is a struggle to find affordable, accessible, quality child care and an underappreciated workforce that continues to see declines is placing the state of child care in what some industry experts call a crisis.
Those working in the child care field can often feel underappreciated for a variety of reasons, including what providers say is a lack of understanding from some parents and society at large about the work they do.
