American child care today
A discussion of the current state of child care in America from the perspective of two disparate goals: the first fostering mothers’ employment and the second children’s development; these two ends demand compromise between the affordability of child care and the ever increasing costliness of new regulations
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The brave new world of child care
A discussion of dual-earner households’ child care arrangements and the promotion of parental child care over professional child care utilization; it espouses a politically conservative viewpoint and the discussion includes recommendations such as flexible employment hours
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Caring as social right: Cash for child care and daddy leave
A study of policies aimed at gender division in family child care and employment policies in Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway
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Child care and child rearing today and tomorrow
A discussion of child care and child rearing analyzed through an ecological socialist framework
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Childcare and welfare (in)justice
A discussion of welfare reform and its impact on child care, including a historical perspective on impoverished mothers’ use of social services and the political and social implications of welfare reform policy
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Child-care: The changing boundaries of family, economy and state
A study of the effects of child care and family-friendly policies on women’s economic independence in the United Kingdom
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Child-care characteristics of infants with and without special needs: Comparisons and concerns
An analysis comparing the maternal employment patterns and child care arrangements and their quality for children with and without special needs, using two studies: a study of children with special needs, and data from the Seattle, Washington, a site of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care
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Child care costs as a barrier to employment for single and married mothers
An economically focused discussion of the cost of child care and its impact on maternal employment
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Correlates of low-income African American and Puerto Rican fathers' involvement with their children
A study of sociostructural, psychological, and parenting skill determinants of parental involvement in socioeconomically disadvantaged Puerto Rican and African American fathers of preschool-age children
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The demand for quality in child care
A discussion of the effects of demand on price and quality of child care using an economic perspective
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The division of household labor and child care in urban Chinese families
A study of the division of household labor and child care in urban Chinese families as it relates to gender, resources/power, and time availability
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The effects of after-tax wages, transfer payments, and child care expenses on labor market and transfer program participation
An examination of the influence of after-tax wages, benefit guarantees, child care expenses, and other factors on welfare recipient families’ labor market and transfer program participation
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The effects of daycare reconsidered
A study of the effects of child health at birth, mother ratings of child development, and child temperament on the timing of post-birth maternal labor force entry, based on mothers and their children in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979
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An examination of gender differences in Mexican-American attitudes toward family and career roles
A study of gender differences in Mexican-American attitudes in the workplace and toward child care responsibility of working parents as it relates to age, marital status, number of children and acculturation
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Family-friendly backlash--fact or fiction? The case of organizations' on-site child care centers
A study of worker attitudes and behaviors related to the use of employer-based on-site child care
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Fathering over time: What makes the difference?
A discussion of longitudinal data on the father’s role in child rearing and domestic activities in relation to family and labor force variables in white, two-parent families with children under the age of 5
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GDR women and German unification: Meanings of paid work and child care
A study of the ability of East German women to combine motherhood and employment during the unification of Germany and its transition from state socialism to market capitalism
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Head Start, poor children, and their families
A longitudinal study of the family demographics and predictors of socioeconomically disadvantaged child participation in Head Start programs and persistence of poverty later in life
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Linkages between children's narrative representations of families and social competence in child-care settings
A study of the relationship between social and family model expectations and social interactions among preschool students with divorced parents
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Locked doors: States struggling to meet the child care needs of low-income working families [Executive summary]
A description of child care pressures for working parents and funding and demand discrepancies in United States child care subsidy policy
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Making childcare work
An analysis of the impact of the 1993 Out of School Initiative to increase child care services for school age children as it relates to mothers’ involvement in the labor market in the United Kingdom
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Masculinity and child care: The reconstruction of fathering
A study of Norwegian fathers’ use of paid and unpaid parental leave, and their construction of masculinity in connection with caregiving; the data was collected through surveying roughly 960 new fathers in Trondheim, 260 new fathers throughout Norway who used paid family leave, and in-depth interviews with ten couples who shared the parental leave period
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Maternal employment, child care, and nutritional status of 12-18-month-old children in Managua, Nicaragua
A study of the relationship among maternal employment, child care strategies, and nutritional status of children 12-18 months of age in ten low income urban communities in Nicaragua
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Measuring the impact of child care subsidies on the incomes of mothers returning to work
A study of the use of child care services and the provision of child care subsidies in reducing the financial barriers that make returning to work difficult for mothers in Australia
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Meeting the needs of today's workforce: Child care best practices
A study of forty employers that have instituted child care programs for their employees over the past few years, highlighting best practices that address the needs of working parents
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