The Number of Child Care Arrangements Used by Children under Five: Variation across the States. No. B-12. Assessing the New Federalism: An Urban Institute Program To Assess Changing Social Policies.

Autor/inn/en	Capizzano, Jeffrey; Adams, Gina
Institution	Urban Inst., Washington, DC.
Titel	The Number of Child Care Arrangements Used by Children under Five: Variation across the States. No. B-12. Assessing the New Federalism: An Urban Institute Program To Assess Changing Social Policies.
Quelle	(2000), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Child Caregivers; Day Care; Employed Parents; Mothers; National Surveys; Preschool Children; Preschool Education; State Surveys + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Tagespflege; Mother; Mutter; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule
Abstract	As part of the Assessing the New Federalism project, this study investigated the number of child care arrangements that employed mothers with children under 5 years old. The study began by examining national and state estimates of the number of arrangements used by these children, focusing on how these patterns differ for children of different ages. Then, the types of child care arrangements that are combined when parents use multiple arrangements were studied. Data are from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families, a survey of 44,461 that oversampled families with income below 200% of the federal poverty level and collected information on a nationally representative sample of children and children in 12 states. Across the county, almost 2 in 5 children under 5 years with employed mothers are in 2 or more nonparental child care arrangements each week. The percentage of children in multiple arrangements varies somewhat by state, but there is relatively little variation from the national average. Younger children across the United States are less often in multiple child care arrangements than 3- and 4-year-olds, who are more likely to be in three or more arrangements. However, low-income children are no more likely to be in multiple child care arrangements than those from higher-income families. It is important to note that while the use of multiple arrangements is widespread, it is not clear whether it has a detrimental impact on parents or children. (SLD)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01