Farmers are not exempt from childcare challenges

A new nationwide study is providing insight into childcare challenges in farm families and across rural communities.

Ohio State University rural sociologist Shoshanah Inwood tells Brownfield access to affordable, quality childcare is a significant issue for young farmers.

“I think one of the biggest myths that we’ve actually come across in this research is there’s an idea in agriculture that childcare is just not an issue for farmers, that there’s lots of family around to care for the kids, and yet you can also bring the kids to work,” she says.  

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