Child care and child births: The role of grandparents in the Netherlands
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
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Choices in the real world: The use of family, friend and neighbor child care by single Chicago mothers working nontraditional schedules
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
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A comparative analysis of subsidized and non-subsidized relative child care homes in Kansas
A comparison of the quality of care provided by family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in Kansas who do or do not receive child care subsidies, based on observations of and interviews with 22 caregivers and on focus groups with 5 caregivers
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Families, friends & neighbors: Understanding the needs of FFN childcare providers in L.A. County
A study of the characteristics and needs of family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) child care providers in Los Angeles County, California, based on surveys from 448 FFN providers and on five focus groups with 44 FFN providers
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Families, friends & neighbors: Understanding the needs of FFN childcare providers in L.A. County [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the characteristics and needs of family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) child care providers in Los Angeles County, California, based on surveys from 448 FFN providers and on five focus groups with 44 FFN providers
Executive Summary
Family, friends & neighbors: Year 1 evaluation report
An evaluation of Family, Friends and Neighbor Care, a program in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to improve the quality of home-based child care providers through home visits and play groups, that examines program implementation and changes in caregiving quality, children's vocabulary, and provider access to community resources, based on program data, surveys from 15 parents, stakeholder interviews and focus groups, pre- and post-program observations of 33 providers, and pre- and post-program assessments of 29 children
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Family, friends & neighbors: Year 1 evaluation report [Executive summary]
A summary of an evaluation of Family, Friends and Neighbor Care, a program in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to improve the quality of home-based child care providers through home visits and play groups, that examines program implementation and changes in caregiving quality, children's vocabulary, and provider access to community resources, based on program data, surveys from 15 parents, stakeholder interviews and focus groups, pre- and post-program observations of 33 providers, and pre- and post-program assessments of 29 children
Executive Summary
Family proximity, childcare, and women's labor force attachment
We show that close geographical proximity to mothers or mothers-in-law has a substantial positive effect on the labor supply of married women with young children. We argue that the mechanism through which proximity increases labor supply is the availability of childcare. We interpret availability broadly enough to include not only regular scheduled childcare during work hours but also an insurance aspect of proximity (e.g., a mother or mother-in-law who can provide irregular or unanticipated childcare). Using two large datasets, the National Survey of Families and Households and the public use files of the U.S. Census, we find that the predicted probability of employment and labor force participation is 4-10 percentage points higher for married women with young children living in close proximity to their mothers or their mothers-in-law compared with those living further away. (author abstract)
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The frequency of outdoor play for preschool age children cared for at home-based child care settings
A study of the outdoor play frequency of young children cared for at home-based child care settings and factors associated with outdoor play, based on data from 1,900 young children cared for in home-based child care settings that include both relative and non-relative care, from a nationally representative sample
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Grandparenting and childbearing in the extended family
A study of the relationship between the role of grandparents' grandchild care provision and their adult children's childbearing behavior, and changes in that relationship for different configurations of extended families and age of the youngest grandchild, with an examination of differences across countries that differ in provision of formal child care availability, based on data from over 16,031 individuals aged 50 years or older from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) for eleven European countries
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Grandparenting and mothers' labour force participation: A comparative analysis using the Generations and Gender Survey
An investigation of the association between mothers' labor market participation and women receiving grandparent child care, based on data from Bulgaria, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Russia and The Netherlands, drawn from the Generations and Gender Survey
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Grandparents as child care providers: Factors to consider when designing child care policies
A discussion of child care policy considerations related to child care provided by grandparents
Fact Sheets & Briefs
Home away from home: A toolkit for planning home visiting partnerships with family, friend, and neighbor caregivers
A discussion of strategies to extend home visiting program models to family, friend, and neighbor child care providers
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Improving our understanding of informal childcare in the UK: An interim report of Daycare Trust research into informal childcare
A study of the features of informal child care in the United Kingdom, including patterns of informal child care arrangements, provider characteristics, and parents' decision-making related to informal child care, based on 10 focus groups with parents who use informal care, a survey of 1,413 parents with children under 16 years old, and a survey of 857 informal care providers
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Improving our understanding of informal childcare in the UK: An interim report of Daycare Trust research into informal childcare [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the features of informal child care in the United Kingdom, including patterns of informal child care arrangements, provider characteristics, and parents' decision-making related to informal child care, based on 10 focus groups with parents who use informal care, a survey of 1,413 parents with children under 16 years old, and a survey of 857 informal care providers
Executive Summary
Informal childcare: Choice or chance?: Project summary report
Findings from a research project on informal child care in the United Kingdom that examine informal child care arrangement patterns, informal child care provider characteristics, and features of informal caregiving practices
Executive Summary
Legally-exempt child care: What does it mean in New York State?
A comparison of license-exempt child care provision and policies in New York State to provision and policies in California, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington, based on state surveys and key informant interviews
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Mothers' labour market participation: Do grandparents make it easier?
A study of the relationship of grandparent child care use to female labor force participation in Italy, based on data for 3,852 mothers from a national survey of characteristics of Italian families
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Mothers' labour market participation: Do grandparents make it easier?
A study of the relationship of grandparent child care use to female labor force participation in Italy, based on data for 3,852 mothers from a national survey of characteristics of Italian families
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Motivations for providing and utilizing child care by grandmothers in South Korea
An examination of the motivations of grandmothers and mothers to provide and utilize child care, based on data from 21 matched pairs of employed mothers and grandmothers who are caregivers in Korea
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Multigenerational households and the school readiness of children born to unmarried mothers
Following the ongoing increase in nonmarital fertility, policy makers have looked for ways to limit the disadvantages faced by children of unmarried mothers. Recent initiatives included marriage promotion and welfare-to-work programs. Yet policy might also consider the promotion of three generational households. We know little about whether multigenerational households benefit children of unwed mothers, although they are mandated for unmarried teen mothers applying for welfare benefits. Multigenerational households are also becoming increasingly common. Thus, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (N = 217), this study examines whether grandparent-headed coresidential households benefit preschool-aged children's school readiness, employing propensity score techniques to account for selection into these households. Findings reveal living with a grandparent is not associated with child outcomes for families that select into such arrangements but is positively associated with reading scores and behavior problems for families with a low propensity to coreside. The implications of these findings for policy are discussed. (author abstract)
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Sesame Street Healthy Habits for Life resource kit provides benefits for child care providers and young children
A study of the impact of health resource kits on the nutrition and physical activity knowledge and practices of family, friend, and neighbor child care providers in Los Angeles, California, based on pre- and post-intervention surveys from 30 treatment and 23 control FFN child care providers and on focus groups with 16 treatment providers
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Who's the boss?: The political economy of unpaid care work and food sharing in Brooklyn, USA
A case study of child care workers' practices of sharing food among themselves as well as with the children in their charge, based on data collected between 2004 and 2007 from West Indian child care providers in Brooklyn, New York
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With strings attached: Grandparent-provided child care, fertility, and female labor market outcomes
A study of the relationship of the availability of grandparent child care to maternal residence choices, fertility decisions, and labor force participation, based on data from the nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel
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With strings attached: Grandparent-provided child care, fertility, and female labor market outcomes
A study of the relationship of the availability of grandparent child care to maternal residence choices, fertility decisions, and labor force participation, based on data from the nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel
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