Mothers and child care
Policies, values and theories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14896000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Duncan (University of Bradford, corresponding author), Rosalind Edwards (0000-0002-3512-9029, London South Bank University), T Reynolds (0000-0002-9618-6318, London South Bank University), P Alldred (0000-0002-5077-7286, University of Greenwich) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 254-265 |
| Publication date | 2004-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Children & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-0605 • E-ISSN: 1099-0860 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/chi.800 |
| OpenAlex | W2028156469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 20 |
Government expansion of child care services is based on the assumption that both parents are employed (the adult worker model) and make cost‐benefit calculations in choosing child care (the rational economic choice model). This paper addresses this assumption, based on research examining mothers' assessments of appropriate child care. These assessments involve complex moral and emotional decisions around their own and their children's needs, and differ between social groups. On this basis, we conclude that the assumptions underlying current child care expansion policy are inadequate, and that the mere expansion of services is not enough
Child care · Economics · Government (linguistics · Public economics · Early Childhood Education and Development · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Retrieving the hidden everyday spaces of infants
How Welfare States Care
Locus of Control, Coping and Proto Prevention in Child and Family Care
Communities of care
Agentic Action in Context
Managing access to full-time public daycare and preschool services in Romania
Working mothers’ gender ideologies on childcare and perception on existing childcare centres
Mothering, Guilt and Shame
It’s Not Rational It’s Complicated
Grandparents as educators and carers in China
The Social Patterning of Values and Rationalities
Examining ‘Social Investment’ Policy in a Multi-Ethnic Sure Start Area
Extended Review
Family Policy and Formal and Informal Care for Preschool-Age Children in Selected European Countries
My Parents Rejected all these Employment Opportunities
Living and working in urban working class communities
Body training’
Who uses public childcare for 2‐year‐old children? Coherent family policies and usage patterns in S weden, F inland and W estern G ermany
Rational or emotional decisions? Parents’ nonstandard work hours and the justifications for using informal childcare
The Parent Concerns Questionnaire and Parenting Stress Index
Families at social risk and access to 0–3 Early Childhood Education and Care in Spain
The Aporias of Reflexivity
The Quality‐Defining Process in Early Years Services
Lone Parents and Informal Childcare
The totality of caring”
Morality in parents’ stories of preschool choice
The ‘childcare champion’? New Labour, social justice and the childcare market
Local links, local knowledge
High Thresholds and Prevention in Children's Services
How Important Is Prevention? High Thresholds and Outcomes for Applicants Refused by Children's Services
Social Support Use as a Parental Coping Strategy
Begrenzte Wahl – Gelegenheitsstrukturen und Erwerbsmuster in Paarhaushalten im europäischen Vergleich
The Transition to Motherhood
Day-care centres in Portugal (1974-2023)
A creche em Portugal (1974-2023)
Personal Life, Pragmatism and Bricolage
Employed Mothers' Justifications for Using Child Home Care Allowance in Finland
Childcare needs and childcare policies
Difference and equality
Childcare and parental work schedules
The Politics of Childcare Provisioning
Mothering, Class and Rationality
Child Care and Child Births
Risk Society
The normal chaos of love
A Treatise on the Family
Lone Mothers, Paid Work and Gendered Moral Rationalities
Same Sex Intimacies
Local Childcare Cultures
Supporting families? New Labour's communitarianism and the 'rationality mistake
Spheres of care in the UK
A Market in Love? Choosing Pre‐school Childcare
Geographies of family formations
Method in Social Science
Risk society
Motherhood, Paid Work and Partnering
Black mothering, paid work and identity
Grandparents Are the Next Best Thing
Moral Tales of the Child and the Adult
| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,95 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |