Kate Hudson Is Urging Big Businesses To Provide Daycare
JUL 30, 2008 AT 08:55 AM
Kate Hudson is lucky enough to work and be able to bring her child along. That's all she's ever known. In fact, I am sure it is written in her contract for each movie she does. The actress doesn't understand how women are able to leave their children to work and wishes big businesses would start providing in-house daycare so moms won't have to anymore.
"I’m so lucky to have care for my child at work. It’s hard when you
have kids and you’re working. I want to go to every big corporation and
say, ‘You must have daycare!’.
"When I go to work I get to bring my son, but not all working mothers do and I don’t know how they do it."
It's a wonderful thought... yes. But unfortunately highly improbable.
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I love her outfit!!
Fashion find??
Many DO offer daycare. Go look at the Fortune 100 companies and see how many.
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So I hear her and Lance broke up over the weekend.
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We do it, because we have to. If we didn't we wouldn't be able to afford to provide for them. I wish my job had day care. I work for the Government and I know some locations provide on site day care - just not mine. If I wanted that I would have to work 50 miles farther a way than I already do. So you make do.
um hello kate! we dont have millions of dollarrs like you so we need to WORK IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FOR OUR KIDS! are you that fing dense?
Agreed. While I do agree with her general sentiment (companies being more flexible about having children nearby/at work) I find it laughable when multi-millionaire stars refer to themselves as "working parents." Most parents work because they HAVE to. Kate could never work another day on her life and still live a more lavish lifestyle than most people could dream of. Heck, she was BORN INTO an incredibly wealthy, famous family. Even if she wants to wor for the purposes of making a contribution, she could very easily take off 5 years until child is in school (something most moms would kill to be able to do.) I feel the same way about people like Denise Richards who refer to themselves as "single mothers." The major struggle of being a single parents is having only one income. If you earn enough for full-time, live-in child care and don't HAVE to work 40-hour weeks, you don't have the same struggles as an average "single" parent.
^^^^^ugh, sorry for all the typos above!
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Yeah, seriously, what is UP with her??? Daycare within the company or not, you still need to send your kids to daycare if you work. And somebody does need to pay for it. It's not all for free. she's seriously dense.
What a sexist comment.
What about working fathers, Kate?
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Corporations have loads of money to spare. Daycare for working moms is a great idea. You can be close by if they need you, see them at lunch, whatever! It would give working moms the best of both worlds. But I agree with Vera - highly impobable. They would probably rather higher men instead.
If you AFFORD to have kids and a nice life then DONT HAVE KIDS. I am SO SICK of women bitching about EVERYTHING and the root cause is usually ALWAYS kids. Ugh. Kids are the BIGGEST EXCUSE EVER, women use them as an exuse for EVERYTHING. You have a career or you have a family, in the real world you cant have both. If you THINK you have both chances are you or you child are missing something major.
you are really ignorant! wh ohere is blaming kids for anything????????????? just because you are too impatent to balance a career and kids doesnt mean no one else can! woman are so capable of this and have been doing it for years you stupid fat slobbering cow hen! you make me sick!
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ha ha!! you are AWESOME Melissa22! Women totally use kids for an excuse. And they should stop pretending they don't hear their kid scream in the stores too! WE all hear it and so do they!
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Wow. People are testy this morning! Kate is saying that having your child on site with you is better than being at a separate daycare. She is saying that she would want the same thing she has for every mother.
I personally applaud her statement and wish that my company would do it!
Relax people, and read the quotes before you jump all over everyone!
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Dear Kate: please come over to my University and tell them I also need daycare for my child. Because they don't give a damn about it.
my sister in law works at a big corp that has a daycare and she said more than half your incomes goes to daycare - it's bloody expensive, it's not even worth it.
hi Vera,
This is my second post on your site - i try to visit as often as i can - it's a nice break from work.
I'm one of lucky ones who have daycare at work and the wonderful thing is that it's totally free! I can understand Kate's sentiment of wishing that everyone else had her good fortune for i must say it's great being able to visit my little monster as often as i like during the day.
Mind you, i live in Sri Lanka and i think i'm really lucky to be working in one of the very few company's here that DO offer this service. i think those companies that can afford it really should look at the option because it's such a blessing for working mums and even dads.
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