67-year-old Idaho teacher retires, moves to Delaware to care for granddaughter as daycare costs soar

Mary Jo Galusha now spends about 30 hours each week caring for her granddaughter (NPR photo) A 67-year-old retired schoolteacher from Idaho moved across the US to Delaware after her daughter decided to have a second child despite the high cost of childcare. Mary Jo Galusha retired from teaching and drove cross-country in her red Volkswagen Beetle to help her daughter, Stacia Bourne, and her family, WTJX NewsFeed reported.Bourne, a University of Delaware psychology professor who lives in Maryland, and her husband had been worried about the cost of raising another child. Their first child, George, was born in 2020 and started daycare at the age of two. "The cost for childcare for him is about the same as our mortgage," Bourne said.The couple had been discussing whether they could afford a second child when Galusha offered to help. She told her daughter that if they decided to have another baby, she would retire and move from Idaho to the East Coast to provide childcare.Several months later, Galusha received the call that Bourne was expecting. "I got a call that Stacia was expecting and that I better start planning on retiring," Galusha recalled with a laugh. She then retired from her...