Ways of caring: How relative caregivers support children and parents

Author(s): Bromer, Juliet;
Date Issued: 2005
Publisher(s): Bank Street College of Education
Description: An investigation of the support roles of African American relatives as child care providers in poor Chicago neighborhoods, citing interviews with 9 grandmothers and 1 aunt who offered full time child care to at least one relative child
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Editor(s): Rice, Rena
Funder(s): A. L. Mailman Family Foundation
Source: In R. Rice (Ed.), Perspectives on family, friend and neighbor child care: Research, programs and policy (Occasional Paper Series No. 15, pp. 14-21). New York: Bank Street College of Education. Retrieved February 15, 2012, from the ERIC Web site: http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED491761.pdf
Topics: Parents & Families > Involvement In Child Care & Early Education > Parent-Provider

Child Care & Early Education Providers/Organizations > Provider Type/Setting > Family, Friend, & Neighbor (Informal)
Country: United States
States: ILLINOIS
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