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Hair stylist SANDRA BEAL rents a booth from the operator of a Long Beach salon and keeps her 3-year-old son at work with her for a few hours each day. She commented on child care in the workplace:

If I wasn’t able to bring my boy here, I would have to find someone to care for him. My husband starts work at 3 (p.m.) and my daughter starts her job at 4 (p.m.), so there is no one at home to take care of him for that period at the end of the day. You can afford to pay for your living arrangements and other things you need, but it is hard to squeeze in that money for child care, usually its $50 or $60 a week.

People do complain. Sometimes the owner complains, because kids get into things. But I think all jobs should have a place where kids can be. A lot of mothers and fathers and single people just can’t afford child care.

I don’t think an office should be turned into a nursery: (a landlord who has complained about children in an Orange County law office) is right in a way. But mostly he’s wrong because (those women) are doing what they have to do. If they can’t do it that way, how can they make a living to take care of the child?

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