The Influence of Race/Ethnicity on Disadvantaged Mothers' Child Care Arrangements

Autor/inn/en	Radey, Melissa; Brewster, Karin L.
Titel	The Influence of Race/Ethnicity on Disadvantaged Mothers' Child Care Arrangements
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 22 (2007) 3, S.379-393 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2006
DOI	10.1016/j.ecresq.2007.05.004
Schlagwörter	African American Children; Ethnicity; Racial Differences; Marital Status; Poverty; Mothers; Child Welfare; Cultural Differences; Child Care; Welfare Services; African Americans; Employed Women; Low Income Groups; Hispanic Americans; Whites; Comparative Analysis; Socioeconomic Influences; Family Environment; Interaction; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? African Americans; Child; Children; Afroamerikaner; Kind; Kinder; Ethnizität; Rassenunterschied; Familienstand; Armut; Mother; Mutter; Kindeswohl; Kultureller Unterschied; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Fürsorgeeinrichtung; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; White; Weißer; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Familienmilieu; Interaktion; Korrelation
Abstract	This study uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study [Reichman, N., Teitler, J., Garfinkel, I., & McLanahan, S. (2001). The fragile families and child wellbeing study: Sample and design. "Children and Youth Services Review, 23", 303-326] to describe primary child care arrangements of employed, predominantly low-income mothers of 1-year olds, and to quantify their child care calculus in the post-welfare reform era. The sorting of children across arrangement types differs by mother's race/ethnicity: Hispanic children are most likely to be cared for maternal kin, Black children in organized centers, and White children by their fathers. Multinomial regression reveals that the association between race/ethnicity and arrangement type is largely--but not entirely--accounted for by mothers' socioeconomic, household, job, and cultural characteristics; interaction tests show that the associations between arrangement type and both poverty status and marital status are contingent on race/ethnicity. These findings indicate that disadvantage does not translate into child care arrangements similarly across racial/ethnic groups and child care policy must take into account structural and cultural differences associated with parents' race/ethnicity. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10