All in the family? The community context of childcare options and parents' childcare choices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2172525 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cathleen D Zick (0000-0002-3468-9147, University of Utah), Lori Kowaleski-Jones (0000-0002-0604-7032, University of Utah), Benjamin Greenwalt (University of Utah) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 210-231 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Community Work & Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1366-8803 • E-ISSN: 1469-3615 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13668803.2020.1719977 |
| OpenAlex | W3003982709 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 45 |
Childcare in the United States is an important issue impacting parents as they navigate a landscape characterized by challenging choices between parental care only, the price of paid childcare, and largely unpaid kin care. Drawing on guidance from the accommodation model, the current work extends the examination of childcare choices by including non-paid care and by using a sample of families across a broad range of incomes. Data from a statewide childcare survey linked to information regarding proximity of kin, unpaid childare, childcare prices, and other potentially relevant community characteristics are used in the empirical work. Multivariate analyses treat the mother's employment decision and childcare choices as simultaneous decisions. We find that childcare choices are linked to community caracteristics inlcuding the price of licenced family-based childcare, proximity of kin, the percentage of adults in the community who have a college degree, and the community level unemployment rate. Our work suggests that childcare resource agencies should look at a range of community characteristics beyond area-level poverty rates when identifying communities of high need. The role of childcare information flows from the community to parents should also be the subject of future research
Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Poverty · Unemployment · Unpaid work · Work (physics · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology
Family Networks and Childcare Choices
Family child care providers’ perceptions of competence, autonomy, and relatedness
Accommodating life's demands
Economic hardship and the role of cost in childcare decisions
Manifestations of the ethics of hospitality at children's hospitality centres in Saudi Arabia
American Grandparents Providing Extensive Child Care to Their Grandchildren
Price, Quality, and Income in Child Care Choice
Making Motherhood Work
Why and How Working Women Choose Child Care
Child-Care Costs and Family Labor Supply
Grandparents raising grandchildren
All in the Family
The selection of preschool for immigrant and native-born Latino families in the United States
Selection into early education and care settings
Family and individual predictors of child care use by low-income families in different policy contexts
Low-income families' selection of child care for their young children
Predictors of public early care and education use among children of low-income immigrants
Family proximity, childcare, and women’s labor force attachment
Changes in Young Children’s Family Structures and Child Care Arrangements
Mother's Work History in the Construction of Adult Daughter's Worker-Mother Discursive Strategies
Child Endowments and the Quantity and Quality of Children
The Demand for Quality in Child Care
On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children
Time spent in child care
Timing, extent, and type of child care and children’s behavioral functioning in kindergarten
The selection of children from low-income families into preschool
Choice and Accommodation in Parental Child Care Decisions
Costs, Benefits, and Long-Term Effects of Early Care and Education Programs
Racial Safety and Cultural Maintenance
Trust Your Instincts
Constructing motherhood on the night shift
Childcare Choice and Constraints in the United States
Using Kin for Child Care
Custodial Care, Surrogate Care, and Coordinated Care
Grandparents Caring for their Grandchildren
Maternal Employment, Community Contexts, and the Child-Care Arrangements of Diverse Groups
Backup Parents, Playmates, Friends
Familial Factors Associated With the Use of Multiple Child-Care Arrangements
Logistic Regression
Coordination Points
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |