Alternate child care, history of hospitalization, and preschool child behavior
An examination of alternate child care experiences on the relationship between hospitalization and behavior of preschool children living in female-headed single-parent families
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Australia's child care subsidies: A distributional analysis
An investigation into the distribution of child care subsidies across different types of families, based on a simulation of child care utilization, using information from the Department of Human Services and Health in England
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Caring for Connecticut's children: Perspectives on informal, subsidized child care
A report presenting findings from a study on informal child care with a focus on the use of this care by low income families in Connecticut
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Childcare and early education services in low-income communities in Mexico City: Patterns of use, availability and choice
An examination of patterns of care and characteristics of early childhood education and care services for low-income, children aged birth through 6-years old, based on a survey of families with young children from 60 communities in Mexico City, Mexico
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Child care and employment in relation to infants' disabilities and risk factors
A study of children’s chronic health problems; use of adaptive equipment; diagnoses; risk factors; and mental, motor and adaptive functioning on maternal employment plans and selection of child care arrangements
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Child care, role satisfactions, and well-being among employed mothers of young children
An examination of the relationships between attributes of child care, satisfaction with child care, satisfaction with parenting, satisfaction with marriage, satisfaction with work and overall well-being
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Choice of child care in Black, White and Hispanic families: Relation to parents' child-rearing and educational beliefs and practices
A study of the selection of child care arrangements of Hispanic, Black and White parents and the relationship of family characteristics to the type of child care parents chose
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Decision-making of mothers in Hong Kong regarding the occasional use of alternative child care arrangements
An examination of the family context in an attempt to improve the understanding of chosing alternative child care arrangements
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Determinants of self-care arrangements among school-age children
An investigation of factors parents use when chosing self-care for their school age children
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The effects of child care on women's employment and child care utilization
A study using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to determine if accessibility, availability or affordability of child care influences a women’s decision to enter the labor force
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Hiring a nanny: The limits of private solutions to public problems
An investigation into the socioeconomic and cultural conflicts surrounding the hiring of a live-in child care worker, based on interviews with 155 families and their nannies in the New York and Los Angeles areas
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Income-pooling arrangements, economic constraints and married mothers' child care choices
A study of the confluent factors surrounding husbands and wives’ financial arrangements, child care costs, mothers’ wages, sources of wages, and their affect on a mother’s decision to use child care, with results formed through data analysis of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972
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Political motherhood and the everyday experience of mothering: A comparison of the child care strategies of French and British working mothers
A comparison of the similarities and differences in child care strategies and ideologies between French and British mothers
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Pre-school education and attainment in the National Child Development Study and British Cohort Study
An investigation into the correlation between the child care arrangements of children before entering school and children’s educational outcomes, based on data from the National Child Development Study and the British Cohort Study
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Quality of care for children with a disability
A comparison of the child care arrangements, flexibility, and quality of parents with children with social or behavioral problems and those without
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The use of grandparents as child care providers
An examination of the role of maternal preferences and inter-generational ties in a parent’s decision to use grandparents for child care, based on data from the first and second waves of The National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH)
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Using kin for child care: Embedment in the socioeconomic networks of extended families
A study of the factors promoting the greater propensity for African American and Mexican American mothers’ to use child care arrangements with relatives than their Anglo American counterparts, with analysis pointing to a greater sensitivity by minority extended families to the economic needs of their relatives with young children
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