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			Adolescents assuming adult roles: Factors associated with teens providing child care for younger siblings Capizzano, Jeffrey, 2004 (JCPR Working Paper No. 353). Chicago: Joint Center for Poverty Research. A study examining patterns of adolescent sibling child care usage by single- and two-parent families, using data from the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)	Reports & Papers
			An analysis of kin-provided child care in the context of intrafamily exchanges: Linking components of family support for parents raising young children Brandon, Peter D., 2000 American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 59(2), 191-216 A study of the relationship between kin-provided child care and in-kind resource exchanges within extended families	Reports & Papers
			The Arizona Kith and Kin Project Ocampo-Schlesinger, Sarah, 2005 In R. Rice (Ed.), Perspectives on family, friend and neighbor child care: Research programs and policy (Occasional Paper Series No. 15, pp. 22-25). New York: Bank Street College of Education. A discussion of Arizona�s Kith and Kin Project, a non-profit aimed at providing services and training for low-income, family, friend, and neighbor childcare providers	Other
			Assessing initiatives for family, friend, and neighbor child care: An overview of models and evaluations Porter, Toni, March 2007 (Research-to-Policy Connections No. 5). New York: Child Care & Early Education Research Connections A description of current efforts to support and enhance home-based, regulation-exempt child care provided by family, friends, and/or neighbors, and of the documentation and evaluation of these efforts	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Assessing the operation and impact of the Childminder Sustainability Grant Tapp, Penelope, October 2003 (Brief No. RB484). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills. A summary of a study of an initiative in the United Kingdom to increase the retention of family child care providers by offering grants to providers when they have temporarily vacant child care slots, based on case studies of local grantmaking procedures and in-depth small group interviews with family child care providers	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Assessing quality in family, friend and neighbor care: The Child Care Assessment Tool for Relatives Porter, Toni, 2006 New York: Bank Street College of Education, Institute for a Child Care Continuum. (No longer accessible as of October 10, 2012). A paper describing the Child Care Assessment Tool for Relatives, an instrument designed to measure quality of child care provided by relatives, in terms of its development and the results of a field test where it was used with low income relative caregivers	Reports & Papers
			Assessing the quality of family, friend, and neighbor care: The state of research Powell, Douglas R., January 2008 Zero to Three, 28(3), 33-38 An overview of several city-wide and multi-city studies of quality in informal family, friend, and neighbor care (FFN) settings, including a discussion of the instruments used to measure FFN quality and an overview of FFN quality studies conducted in low income neighborhoods	Other
			Associations of warmth and control of Filipina domestic helpers and mothers to Hong Kong kindergarten children�s social competence Ip, Hoi Man, March 2008 Early Education and Development, 19(2), 284-301 A study of the relationship between children�s social development in kindergarten and the warm or controlling caregiving styles of mothers and hired domestic caregivers, based on a sample of 63 triads of children and mothers from Hong Kong and hired domestic caregivers from the Philippines	Reports & Papers
			Barriers to Child Care Subsidies Shlay, Anne B., 2000 Temple University A project consisting of three related studies. The first utilizes focus groups and a standardized survey with subsidy eligible families to examine subsidy use among low-income families. The second surveys low-income families to explore how child care preferences may be related to race and culture. The third uses observational measures to examine the quality of kith and kin care for families who do not use subsidies. This research provides policy-relevant information about developing subsidy policies that are sensitive to the contextual and cultural differences among low-income families.	Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
			Caretakers, child care practices, and growth failure in highland Ecuador Stansbury, James P., 2000 Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 14(2), 224-241 An examination of the relationship between sibling and peer child care and children�s physical health and development in the highlands of Ecuador	Reports & Papers
			Caring for Connecticut's children: Perspectives on informal, subsidized child care Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, 1999 Farmington: Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut. 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	Reports & Papers
			Caring for Connecticut's children: Perspectives on informal, subsidized child care [Executive summary] Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, 1999 Farmington: Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut. A summary of findings from a study regarding low income families' use of informal child care	Executive Summary
			The changing availability of grandparents as carers and its implications for childcare policy in the UK Gray, Anne, 2005 Journal of Social Policy, 34(4), 557-577 An analysis of the role of grandparents as child care providers in the United Kingdom and its impact on the employment decisions of mothers of young children, based on data from the UK Time Use Survey and the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS)	Reports & Papers
			Characteristics and needs of Asian-American grandparent caregivers: A study of Chinese-American and Korean-American grandparents in New York City Yoon, Sung Min, 2005 Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 44(3-4), 75-94 A study of the characteristics and service needs of 101 Chinese-American and Korean-American caregiver grandparents in New York City	Reports & Papers
			Child care and child births: The role of grandparents in the Netherlands Thomese, Fleur, April, 2013 Journal of Marriage and Family, 75(2), 403-421 A study of grandparent involvement in the care of young children and its relationship to subsequent child births in dual-earner families, based on data from 898 18- through 49-year-old Dutch men and women from the Netherlands' Kinship Panel Study	Reports & Papers
			Child care by kith and kin: Supporting family, friends and neighbors caring for children Collins, Ann, 1998 (Children and Welfare Reform Issue Brief No. 5). New York: Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty A summary of research on family, friend, and neighbor child care, including traditional policies, innovative program strategies, and outreach recommendations for states and local communities	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Child care in the homes of family, friends or neighbors Illinois Action for Children, 2007 Chicago: Illinois Action for Children. An overview of family, friend, and neighbor child care provision in Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois	Fact Sheets & Briefs
			Child care: Promoting quality in family child care United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 1994 (GAO/HEHS-95-36). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office. A Government Accounting Office report identifying public and private initiatives to enhance the quality of family child care, the fincancing of initiatives, federal support for quality initiatives, and a discussion of implications for welfare reform	Reports & Papers
			Child care within the family Zinsser, Caroline, 2001 The Future of Children, 11(1), 123-127 A summary of an ethnographic study of the child care choices and experiences of urban, working families in relative child care, with a discussion of quality in relative child care.	Other
			The childhood we have lost: When siblings were caregivers, 1900-1970 Pollack, Eunice, 2002 Journal of Social History, 36(1), 31-61 A study exploring reported effects of sibling care and parent care upon the lives of 600 randomly selected working and lower middle class women, born between 1895 and 1940 who received therapy between 1930 and 1970 at fourteen outpatient clinics	Reports & Papers
			Child-rearing in families of working and nonworking mothers Yarrow, Marian R., 1962 Sociometry, 25(2), 122-140 A study of child-rearing among working and non-working mothers, discussing the effects of their attitudes and practices on child-rearing	Reports & Papers
			Children cared for by relatives: What do we know about their well-being? Billing, Amy, 2002 (Series B, No. B-46). Washington, DC: Urban Institute. A discussion of the role of relative child care on child behavioral and cognitive development using data from the 1997 and 1999 Survey of American's Families	Reports & Papers
			Children, caregiving, culture, and community: Understanding the place and importance of kith and kin care in the White Mountain Apache community Sparks, Shannon Michelle Anjeanette, 2007 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson An ethnographic study of the values and circumstances influencing the child care decisions of members of the White Mountain Apache community, with particular attention to both cultural differences in perceptions of quality care and the trends related to the use of family, friend, and neighbor care, based on interviews, observations, and discussions with several dozen parents and care providers	Reports & Papers
			Choices in the real world: The use of family, friend and neighbor child care by single Chicago mothers working nontraditional schedules Illinois Action for Children, 2012 Chicago: Illinois Action for Children. A study of the family, friend, and neighbor child care arrangements and quality of family life of employed single mothers using nontraditional hours child care in Chicago, Illinois, based on interviews with 50 single mothers	Reports & Papers
			A closer look at kith and kin care: Exploring variability of quality within family, friend and neighbor care Shivers, Eva Marie, 2006 Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 27(5), 411-426 An examination of the variations of quality among different characteristics (professional development background, provider sensitivity, child care setting) of family, friend, and neighbor child care providers and an investigation of how these characteristics vary by provider ethnicity	Reports & Papers

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