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Just how much do Swiss parents pay for childcare?
It probably comes as no surprise that the cost of ‘outsourcing’ the task of caring for one’s pre-school-age children is not exactly cheap in Switzerland, one of the world’s most expensive countries. But how much does it cost, and why?