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2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-13). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6

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Child care as a neglected dimension of family burden research
Gamache, Gail, 1995
Research in Community and Mental Health, 8(1), 63-90

A study of the relationship of severe mental illness to biological parenthood and to the family burden that arises from caregiving responsibilities for the children; based on interviews with family members impacted by mental illness

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Child care choices, consumer education, and low-income families
Mitchell, Anne W., 1992
New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty

A policy paper exploring issues surrounding child care choices, consumer advocacy and low-income families

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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
Smith, Linda K., 09 July, 2010
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states

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Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states
Children's Defense Fund (U.S.), 1992
Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund

A study of the Head Start program’s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group

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Child care use by low-income families in rural areas: A contemporary look at the influence of women's work and partner availability
Walker, Susan K., 2004
Journal of Children & Poverty, 10(2), 149-167

A descriptive analysis of child care patterns of 323 low-income women living in rural counties, in relation to women's employment status, partner availability, and child age

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Children enrolled in public pre-K: The relation of family life, neighborhood quality, and socioeconomic resources to early competence
Barbarin, Oscar, 2006
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76(2), 265-276

An examination of the relations of young children's sociodemographic characteristics, parental well-being, family functioning, and neighborhood quality to their early academic achievements and socioemotional competence

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Economic volatility and expulsion in U.S. child care settings: A multi-state survey
Southward, Linda H., 2006
Mississippi State: Mississippi State University, Social Science Research Center.

Studies of the economic vulnerability of American child care centers and expulsion of children for parental nonpayment or changes in voucher status, based on a random sample of 807 child care centers in five states

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Effects of concerns about child care among single, employed black mothers with preschool children
Jackson, Aurora P., 1997
American Journal of Community Psychology, 25(5), 657-673

A study of the different child care arrangements of 111 single, employed, low-income black mothers, and the impact of these mothers’ attitudes concerning leaving their children in nonparental care on their psychological well-being and perceptions of children

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The effects of Fast Start reading: A fluency-based home involvement reading program, on the reading achievement of beginning readers
Rasinski, Timothy, April-June 2005
Reading Psychology, 26(2), 109-125

A study of the impact of a parent-tutoring reading program on letter and word identification and reading fluency in 30 first grade students

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Employed rural, low-income, single mothers' family and work over time
Son, Seohee, March 2010
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 31(1), 107-120

A study of perceptions of difficulties and challenges of balancing family, child care, and work responsibilities, based on a secondary analysis of interview data with of 28 rural, low-income, continuously employed, and single mothers across 11 states over three waves of data collection between 1999 and 2003, who took part in the longitidunal Rural Families Speak Project

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Families and children qualifying for non-assistance child care subsidies in Cuyahoga County
Pearlmutter, Sue, October 1997
Cleveland, OH: Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (Case Western Reserve University), Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change.

A study of the number and characteristics of families and children eligible for non-assistance child care subsidies in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, focusing on family structure and industries of parental employment

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Family-school connectedness and children's early social development
Serpell, Zewelanji Natashya, February, 2012
Social Development, 21(1), 21-46

An examination of the relationship between the qualities of family-school interactions and teacher ratings of child social abilities, and an examination of the moderating influences of family characteristics, based on data collected from 2966 children, their parents, their preschool teachers, and some of their kindergarten teachers

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Fathers of U.S. children born in 2001: Findings from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
Avenilla, Frank, July 2006
(E.D. Tab, NCES 2006-002). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

Findings from a survey of biological fathers of sampled children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), including data on fathers' demographic characteristics, attitudes about fathering, and involvement in child care

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Flip flops, dress clothes, and no coat: Clothing barriers to children's physical activity in child-care centers identified from a qualitative study
Copeland, Kristen A., November, 2009
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 6

A qualitative study of problems related to the clothing and jewelry worn by young children that hinders the outdoor vigorous physical activity in child care centers, and an examination of the tensions between parents and child care staff that arise from the inappropriate dress of their children, based on focus groups or interviews with 53 workers at urban Cincinnati child care centers

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Franklin County Smart Start initiative: Parent awareness survey
Community Research Partners, June 2002
Columbus, OH: Community Research Partners.

A study of parents' perceptions about child care and development, including their sources of information about child care and development and their knowledge about child development and a local early childhood initiative, based on a survey of parents whose children were enrolled in child care centers in two neighborhoods in Franklin County, Ohio

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Health of grandmothers as caregivers: A ten month follow-up
Musil, Carol M., 2000
Journal of Women and Aging, 12(1-2), 129-145

An investigation of self-reported health, depression, anxiety, stress, coping, and support in a sample of grandmothers living with their grandchildren and comparing these reports with the self-reported health assessments of grandmothers acting as either primary or part-time care givers for their grandchildren

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Instability in patchworks of child care when moving from welfare to work
Scott, Ellen K., 2005
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 67(2), 370-386

A longitudinal study of welfare recipients in Cleveland, Ohio, examining the stability of child care arrangements during welfare-to-work transitions

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Labor force supply decisions of rural low-income mothers
Mammen, Sheila, March, 2009
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 30(1), 67-79

A microeconomic study of the associations between both rural low income mothers' decision to work and number of hours worked and mother's individual characteristics, household characteristics, human capital, various household income sources including participation in child care assistance and the Earned Income Tax Credit, and local economic conditions, based on data from 412 families from 23 counties in 13 states

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Locked doors: States struggling to meet the child care needs of low-income working families
Adams, Gina, 1998
Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund

A study on the demand for affordable quality childcare in the United States

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Low-income parents' perceptions of pediatrician advice on early childhood education
Brown, Courtney M., February, 2013
Journal of Community Health, 38(1), 195-204

An examination of parents' attitudes toward involving the pediatrician in early care and education decisions and the barriers they may face in following the pediatrician's advice, based on data from 27 parents of 3- and 4-year-olds at an urban primary care center in Cincinnati

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Maternal grandmothers as child care providers for rural, low-income mothers: A unique child care arrangement
Reschke, Kathy L., 2006
Journal of Children & Poverty, 12(2), 159-174

An examination of the positive and challenging aspects of grandmothers providing child care for their grandchildren, investigating the experiences of the grandmothers as well as the effects on the sample of low income mothers from rural communities

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Migrant and seasonal Head Start and child care partnerships: A report from the field
Kloosterman, Valentina I., 2003
Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Center for Children and Families.

A study conducted by the Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Collaboration Office and the Quality in Linking Together (QUILT) to determine the scope of collaborative efforts between Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and state-funded child care services

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National Household Education Surveys program of 2005: After-school programs and activities: 2005
Carver, Priscilla R., 2006
(E.D. TAB, NCES 2006-076). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

An examination of data from the After-School Programs and Activities survey on the participation of kindergarteners through eighth graders in after school programs, with discussion of the survey’s design, the different types of after school care, their participation rates, and the expenses surrounding various types of after school care

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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: Care in the home: A description of family child care and the experiences of the families and children who use it: Wave 1 report
United States. Administration for Children and Families, August 2006
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

Findings from the first wave of data collection for the In-Depth Study of Family Child Care, a component of the National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, focusing on parents and their employment and child care experience, family child care providers and their homes as child care environments, and children and their experiences in family child care

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