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Child care use and quality: Implications for welfare reform
Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, 1996
(Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center Issue Brief No. 3). Ithaca, NY: Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center.
An overview of the cost, availability, type, and quality of child care for welfare reform participants
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Fact Sheets & Briefs
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Marriage, children, and women's employment: What do we know?
Cohen, Philip N., 1999
Monthly Labor Review, 122(12), 22-31
An examination of women’s involvement, particularly married women, in paid employment, focusing on paid employment and child care in the context of recent welfare reform
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Too old for child care?: Too young for self-care?: Negotiating after-school arrangements for middle school
Polatnik, M. Rivka, 2002
Journal of Family Issues, 23(6), 728-747
An examination of structural and cultural factors influencing family negotiations about after school care, based on 48 interviews with preteens and parents in a California city, with a discussion of ways that middle schools and their communities can be more responsive to the needs of employed parents and families
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Assessing the optimal length of parental leave for child and parental well-being: How can research inform policy?
Galtry, Judith, 2005
Journal of Family Issues, 26(2), 219-246
A review of literature on concerns associated with parental leave, encompassing mothers' labor market outcomes, childbirth and maternal recovery, parent-infant bonding, children’s cognitive development, breastfeeding, and gender equity objectives
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Literature Review
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What gets dad involved?: A longitudinal study of change in parental child caregiving involvement
Wood, Jeffrey J., 2004
Journal of Family Psychology, 18(1), 237-249
A longitudinal study investigating factors influencing paternal and maternal caregiving involvement, based on a sample of 132 households with school-aged children
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National Survey of Parents, 2000-2001
Bianchi, Suzanne M., 2005
Bianchi, Suzanne, and John Robinson. NATIONAL SURVEY OF PARENTS, 2000-2001 [Computer file]. University of Maryland-College Park, Survey Research Center [producer], 2001. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research [distributor] 2005.
A National Survey of the activity patterns of American parents and on how they divide their time among work, household tasks, child care, and leisure activities. Information on feelings about various parenting activities was also ascertained.
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The Five Hundred Family Study
Schneider, Barbara, 2008
Schneider, Barbara, and Linda J. Waite. THE 500 FAMILY STUDY [1998-2000: UNITED STATES] [Computer file]. ICPSR04549-v1. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago, National Organization for Research and Computing (NORC), Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children and Work [producer], 2001. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-05-30.
This data collection contains information examining how middle class, dual-career families make investments in time and resources, how these
choices are made, the effects these investments have on the quality of relationships in the household, and
the resulting socialization of school-age children and adolescents.
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Gender inequality in the welfare state: Sex segregation in housework, 1965–2003
Hook, Jennifer L., March 2010
American Journal of Sociology, 115(5), 1480-1523
An examination of the relationships between men and women's domestic cooking time and housework time and percent of children birth through 2 years old in child care, employment, marital status, parental leave, parent age, and having a child under 5 years of age, from 36 time use surveys from 19 countries over 38 years, combined with national data in multilevel models
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The relationship between work-life policies and practices and employee loyalty: A life course perspective
Roehling, Patricia V., 2001
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 22(2), 141-170
A study of workplace policies with relevant life course variables and their influence on employee loyalty
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The strange history of employer-sponsored child care: Interested actors, uncertainty, and the transformation of law in organizational fields
Kelly, Erin L., 2003
American Journal of Sociology, 109(3), 606-649
A historical study of the development and expansion of employer-sponsored child care centers and dependent care expense accounts in United States' businesses
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The crisis of care
Thorne, Barrie, 2004
In Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children (pp. 165-178). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
A discussion based on qualitative case studies of how American families from diverse backgrounds cope with limited access to high quality child care.
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Early childhood education for all: A wise investment
Calman, Leslie J., 2005
New York: Legal Momentum.
A description of the child care market's impact on the nation's economy, with recommendations for long term financing strategies for the child care market
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Women's employment and care of children in the United States
Hofferth, Sandra L., 1999
(CEEL Working Paper 003-99). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life.
A study addressing relationships between employment, number of parents in the home, and access of children to parental care and attention from data drawn from a national survey of U.S. children under age 13 conducted in 1997
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Family security: Supporting parents' employment and children's development
Boots, Shelley Waters, July 2008
(New Safety Net Paper 3). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.
A discussion of a policy approach to family security issues that integrates child development and parental employment concerns
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