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I Believe Stay-at-Home Moms Should Be Paid — and I've Made That a Reality • Otter Kidcare

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My name is Helen Mayer and we are launching Otter in Santa Clarita, the Greater LA Area, and San Francisco to match families who need childcare with stay-at-home parents who get paid to take care of kids in their community. Our company has already put over 20 million dollars into the hands of stay-at-home parents. My journey started at the beginning of the pandemic, when I became a stay-at-home parent by default alongside 3 million other women. A few weeks later, I was offered a job I was excited about only to have to turn it down because I couldn’t find safe, reliable, and affordable childcare and my family couldn’t make things work with two working parents working 80+ hours/week. If my story sounds familiar, that’s because 50% of all Americans live in communities dubbed “childcare deserts,” where there are three children in need of care for every daycare spot. While COVID certainly made things worse, I quickly realized this wasn’t just a pandemic specific problem. I still remember th

I Believe Stay-at-Home Moms Should Be Paid — and I've Made That a Reality • Otter Kidcare I Believe Stay-at-Home Moms Should Be Paid — and I've Made That a Reality Childcare SAHM Originally published on Mom.com My name is Helen Mayer and we are launching Otter in Santa Clarita, the Greater LA Area, and San Francisco to match families who need childcare with stay-at-home parents who get paid to take care of kids in their community. Our company has already put over 20 million dollars into the hands of stay-at-home parents. My journey started at the beginning of the pandemic, when I became a stay

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