2005 report on child care in Cook County: Elements of child care supply and demand
An examination of the disconnect between child care supply and demand in Cook County, Illinois, with a focus on affordability and hours of care needed by parents
Reports & Papers
Age 2: Findings from the 2-year-old follow-up of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
A description of the demographic characteristics, early childhood development, maternal attachment, nonparental care experiences, and father involvement of two-year-old children, based on data from the nationally representative 2-year-old follow-up of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
Reports & Papers
Approaches to family literacy: Exploring the possibilities
A description of the Intergenerational Literacy Project, a family literacy program where parents attend classes to develop their own English literacy and to support their children's literacy development
Other
Assessing the play beliefs of African American mothers with preschool children
A critical discussion of rating scales that measure parent beliefs about play, and a description of a study through which the Parent Play Beliefs Scale (PPBS) was developed and validated, based on the participation of African-American families with children enrolled in Head Start centers
Reports & Papers
Assessing the value of 4K in Wisconsin: A study of 4K community approach districts (2005-06): Executive summary
A summary of a study of Wisconsin districts offering free, universal pre-kindergarten to four-year-old children, examining characteristics of teachers and families participating in the program as well as parent satisfaction rates
Executive Summary
Availability of childcare support and nutritional status of children of non-working and working mothers in urban Nepal
An examination of the effects of child care and maternal employment on young children's nutritional status in urban Nepal, comparing the nutritional status of children with working mothers with those of children whose mothers did not work
Reports & Papers
The best laid plans: Expectations, preferences, and stability of child-care arrangements
A study using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care to examine whether timing and extent of the search for child care is associated with stability in child care arrangements
Reports & Papers
Biological essentialism, gender ideologies, and role attitudes: What determines parents' involvement in child care
An examination of the relations among Israeli mothers' and fathers' gender ideologies, fathers' role attitudes, and their involvement in child care in terms of tasks and hours of care
Reports & Papers
Book reading styles in dual-parent and single-mother families
An observational study of shared book reading to determine if there are variations in reading methods between mothers without a partner and mothers and fathers from dual-parent families
Reports & Papers
Caring about employability
An outline of the potential effects of quality universal child care services on the employment status of parents and the healthy development of their children
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Caring for children of color: The child care patterns of white, black, and Hispanic children under 5
A study of child care arrangement patterns across groups of white, African American and Hispanic children
Reports & Papers
Challenging partnerships in Australian early childhood education
A description of the development and purposes of educational partnerships among school personnel, and between schools and parents, in 3 Australian early childhood programs
Reports & Papers
The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit: A policy analysis
A discussion of the development of the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit and an evaluation of the effect of the policy on families with varying incomes
Reports & Papers
Child and maternal contributions to shared reading: Effects on language and literacy development
A longitudinal study of the effects of mother-child home literacy practices on children's expressive and receptive language development, letter knowledge, and knowledge of print concepts from 18 to 42 months of age
Reports & Papers
Child care and children with special needs: Challenges for low income families: Final report
A multi-method study, focusing predominantly on Maine, of the challenges and barriers facing low-income working families with special needs children in finding and retaining child care services and in balancing work and family, based on parent interviews and focus groups, a field study, a child care provider survey, a parent survey, and an analysis of data from the 1997, 1999, and 2002 rounds of the National Survey of America's Families
Reports & Papers
Child Care and Development Block Grant participation in 2005
An overview of the characteristics of children and families who received child care assistance through the Child Care and Development Block Grant in 2005
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Child care and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency
A study examining access to, participation in, and efforts to assist with child care for families with limited English proficiency, based on analysis of national data sets, focus groups with parents, state and county site visits, and interviews with officials and experts
Reports & Papers
Child care and early childhood education: More information sharing and program review by HHS could enhance access for families with limited English proficiency [Highlights]
Highlights of a study examining access to, participation in, and efforts to assist with child care for families with limited English proficiency, based on analysis of national data sets, focus groups with parents, state and county site visits, and interviews with officials and experts
Executive Summary
Childcare and early years provision: A study of parents' use, views and experience
A survey of the child care arrangements, child care costs, barriers to access, and feelings about child care of parents of preschool- and school-aged children in the United Kingdom
Reports & Papers
Childcare and early years provision: A study of parents' use, views and experience [Executive summary]
A summary of a survey of the child care arrangements, child care costs, barriers to access, and feelings about child care of parents of preschool- and school-aged children in the United Kingdom
Executive Summary
Childcare and early years provision: A study of parents’ use, views and experiences
Highlights from a study on parents’ utilization and experiences early childhood education and care services, based on data from almost 8,000 parents randomly selected from the Child Benefit records in England
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Childcare and mothers' employment: Approaching the millennium
An analysis using data from the Millennium Cohort Study to examine employed mothers' uses of informal and formal child care and the varying effects on children's outcomes
Reports & Papers
Child care arrangements for toddlers and preschoolers: Are they different for youngest children?
An analysis of child care arrangements for the youngest children of families, examining the effect of family characteristics on observed differences of child care arrangements
Reports & Papers
Child care arrangements of language-minority children: Care provider's language use
A study of the child care arrangements of language-minority children and the factors associated with having a child care provider who speaks a non-English language, based on the nationally representative National Household Education Survey, 2001
Reports & Papers
Child care assistance and child care use: Fundamental facts from the 2004 Minnesota child care survey
Results from a 2004 survey on child care assistance and center-based child care use among low-income families in Minnesota
Fact Sheets & Briefs
