‘I don’t know how people can afford to have kids’: Londoners on parenting during school holidays

We ask Londoners if they think it’s more expensive to parent during school holidays.

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00:00Yeah, I'm not sure about that. I don't have kids. So, I mean, it seems like it.

00:04But then again, a lot of parents are at work as well. So, I mean, I don't know how you deal with that.

00:09I can't fathom how people can afford to have kids at the moment.

00:12Yeah, absolutely. I think it is more expensive. I mean, let alone like the heat and trying to cope with the heat.

00:18But the additional expense of not having childcare provided or trying to figure out what childcare looks like in the summer,

00:25lost income, particularly for people who don't work regular hours, maybe do shift work or have different working patterns.

00:32Having to decrease their working hours in the summer to accommodate the lack of childcare opportunities is really difficult.

00:40I mean, I'm 50 now. And as I was a kid, youth clubs were a thing.

00:45Just everyone had kids had somewhere to go. There's nothing, is there?

00:48I think we saw the back of those in the 90s. So, yeah, definitely kids need something more to do.

00:54And free things as well. Everything's so expensive in London.