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Child Care and Community Services: Characteristics of Service Use and Effects on Parenting The study aims to improve the field's understanding of the features of child care services that are most critical to support children's development and identify family-level processes that might be influenced by child care. Specific research questions are: (1) What characteristics of parents predict usage of supports and services offered through the child care center and the community?; (2) What types of services and supports do parents use?; (3) Do the services and supports provided or referred to parents from the child care or preschool setting positively affect the home environment and parenting practices? To address these questions three national data sets (Head Start Impact Study, National Evaluation of Early Head Start, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development) are being analyzed. The results of the study can further inform the field of the parental characteristics related to service take-up and whether the services have a positive effect on the home, in addition to providing practitioners and policymakers with evidence to design early child care and education programs that improve the environments and relationships vital for children's academic and social development. |
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Child care policy and the experiences of employed Albertan families with pre-school children: Final report A study of the child care decision-making and perspectives of working parents in Alberta, Canada, based on seven focus groups with 42 participants |
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Child care policy and the experiences of employed Albertan families with pre-school children: Final report [Executive summary] A summary of a study of the child care decision-making and perspectives of working parents in Alberta, Canada, based on seven focus groups with 42 participants |
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Effects of social policy reforms and the economy on welfare participation and employment among single mothers A discussion of the role of policies in the child care subsidy take-up rates among eligible families, and a presentation of estimation models for the roles of child care subsidies, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and demographic variables in the employment choices of single mothers |
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The Impact of Childhood Behavior Problems on Child Care and Employment Decision-Making: A Nationally Representative Panel Study Research shows that low-income families with children having special needs face substantial barriers in finding adequate child care. This results in higher employment instability. The impact of undiagnosed developmental or behavior problems on these outcomes is not yet fully understood. This study contributes much needed information about the link between childhood developmental and behavioral problems, child care needs, and employment decisions. The goal of this study was to examine associations between childhood behavior problems and the stability of child care and employment among working families. This study sought to address two main questions regarding child care. First, what are the child care needs and utilization patterns of low-income working families? And second, what factors influence choice of care among low-income working families? Depending on the prevalence and influence of behavior problems on employment decisions of low-income families, the results of this study help identify the need for additional policies at the national, state or local level specifically targeting families and/or caregivers of children with developmental or behavior problems. The study included parents of children aged 0 to 13 years and employed household level sampling from a nationally representative random-digit dial Gallup panel. Post-stratification weighting was accomplished by applying weights based on census region, income, and education using Stata's post-stratification commands. Measures of child care-related employment problems were part of the telephone survey instrument and include: child care-related employment problems, behavior problems and current serious health conditions, household composition, and demographic variables. Overall, almost half (46 percent) of households reported at least one child care-related employment change. The two most common changes cited were being absent from work (21 percent) and changing the work schedule (27 percent). Two-parent households were significantly less likely to report child care-related employment changes compared to single parent households. In addition, households with a stay-at-home parent were less likely to report child care-related absenteeism, but were more likely to report recently quitting a job than households without a stay-at-home parent. Also, having a child with behavior problems or a serious chronic health condition was associated with up to triple odds of many child care-related employment problems. These findings support the notion that child care-related employment problems are common among families with a child with chronic illness or behavior problems, and support the need for policy makers to strive for implementation of more parent-friendly working conditions. |
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Morality in parents' stories of preschool choice: Narrating identity positions of good parenting This article aims to contribute to our understanding of how moral aspects of parents' choices of preschool play a part in the processes of marketisation and privatisation of childcare in Sweden. The paper explores parents' narratives of preschool choice as moral claims of parental identities. The analysed data are based on a study of how parents make sense of their preschool choice during life-story interviews. Our results point out good parenting as having to do with making distinctions between what is 'good and bad' and 'right and wrong' regardless of whether the choices concern preschools or the behaviour of preschool teachers and parents. Culturally available discourses become visible through the making of these distinctions in ways that ultimately point to the subject position of parents as particular choosers as related to a prevailing discourse of parental responsibility. (author abstract) |
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A profile approach to child care quality, quantity, and type of setting: Parent selection of infant child care arrangements An identification of child care profiles representing patterns of dimensions of quality, quantity, and type of settings selected for infant child care arrangements by parents, and an examination of family factors associated with those profiles, based on data from 489 families at both the one- and six-month assessment points in which the mother was working and/or in school and the child was in at least 10 hours of regular non-maternal child care |
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'You have to choose your childcare to fit your work': Childcare decision-making among low-income working families Findings from a three-year study of child care preferences among low income working families and the factors that can influence their child care decisions, including parental employment contexts, early care and education supply, and related program policies, based on data from 86 families in Providence, Rhode Island, and White Center/Seattle, Washington |
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