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Reciprocity, lone parents and state subsidy for informal childcare
2006Christine Skinner, Naomi Finch
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Patterns of Childcare Information Seeking by Families
Family Relations, 1983Understanding the support system of families is essential to the development of effective parent education resources. Families in Texas were surveyed regarding their current sources of childrearing information and the types of child development information that would be of interest. The results indicated that different family types (e.g.
Robert Hughes, Helen F. Durio
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Expert or experiential knowledge? How knowledge informs situated action in childcare practices
Social Science & Medicine, 2022The study examines how alternative health information affects the professional authority of doctors. Drawing on in-depth interviews with mothers in Hong Kong and focusing on child-rearing practices, we find that mothers glean expert knowledge from doctors and experiential knowledge from online resources, social networks, and direct observations ...
Xiaoli Tian, Sai Zhang
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Informal childcare is essential
Early Years Educator, 2012Policy makers have long since ignored the vital role played by informal childcare in the UK, with research suggesting that the most disadvantaged families have least access to support networks.
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Economic Impact of the Informal Childcare Sector in Kansas
2014The informal childcare sector provides a significant proportion of childcare in the U.S. However, because informal sectors are not captured in our national income accounting sys-tem, the value to our economy is largely unknown. This study examines the size of the infor-mal childcare sector in the state of Kansas.
Choi, Eun-Young +3 more
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Controlling the control system: performance information in the German childcare administration
International Journal of Public Sector Management, 2013Purpose– The purpose of this article is to improve understanding of the use of performance information in the public sector.Design/methodology/approach– The article is based on a comparative case study in the field of German childcare administration. Two cities have been selected based on the variation of their performance measurement systems.Findings–
Kroll, Alexander, Proeller, Isabella
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All in the family: Informal childcare and mothers' labour market participation [PDF]
, 2010 In the traditional models of female labour supply formal childcare is assumed to be provided by the market. This is not the case in most European countries. In this paper we estimate the causal effect of a particular kind of informal care, the one provided by grandparents, on mothers' work decisions in Italy. We deal with the endogeneity due to mothers'
Arpino, Bruno +2 more
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Mexico: leave policy, co‑responsibility in childcare and informal employment1
2019Maternity Leave was established in 1917 within the Mexican Constitution, but Paternity Leave was only introduced in 2012. In this chapter, drawing on a review of 85 legislative initiatives presented to the Mexican Congress since 2012 and relating the national experience to wider Latin American academic debates, we analyse present challenges to ...
Cándido Pérez-Hernández +1 more
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The role of informal support in childcare for divorced mothers in Azerbaijan
2023The aim of this study was to explore the challenges that divorced mothers in Azerbaijan, experience in childcare and the emergence of informal support as a coping mechanism. This thesis tried to compare the experiences and perceptions of divorced mothers with informal support and the factors that affect the quality and quantity of this assistance.
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