It falls far short of the actual costs of child care. Home child care is an option, but we encourage families and the government to invest in regulated child care, where children are stimulated, where they're provided with a healthy lunch, where they learn to interact with each other to solve problems and in essence form the foundations that are important for later life. There's great research that demonstrates that the cost of investing in the early years results in...I think it's $4 saved for every $1, in terms of the social cost that you avoid in the future.
