Child Care Arrangements for Children under Five: Variation across States. No. B-7. Assessing the New Federalism: An Urban Institute Program To Assess Changing Social Policies.

Autor/inn/en	Capizzano, Jeffrey; Adams, Gina; Sonenstein, Freya
Institution	Urban Inst., Washington, DC.
Titel	Child Care Arrangements for Children under Five: Variation across States. No. B-7. 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 provides information on the primary child care arrangements used by children younger than 5 years with employed mothers, both nationally and across a number of states. Data are from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families, which oversampled low-income households. While parents work, a large proportion of preschool children, regardless of age or income, are regularly cared for by individuals other than their parents. This is true nationally and for each of the 12 states studied, a finding that emphasizes the importance of child care in the lives of U.S. families. The availability of state-specific child care data illuminates large differences in child care experiences across the states. Infants and toddlers are more likely to be cared for in less formal child care arrangements (such as relatives), and 3- and 4-year-olds are more likely to be cared for in center-based care, but there are clear exceptions. No single finding explains variations in state patterns of child care. Findings highlight the importance of continuing to explore state differences in child care and the challenges faced by policymakers working to develop child care policies. (SLD)
Anmerkungen	The Urban Institute, 2100 M Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20037. Tel: 202-261-5687; Web site: http://www.urban.org.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01