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- Title
The challenge of caring for children.
- Authors
Costello, Tim
- Abstract
The social context for children and their families has fast been changing. In the past the idea of family has rested on the notion that parents and children not only share their accommodation, but that they share occasions together. Parents still undertake responsibilities for their children, but because of work demands there is a trend to exercise these as single adults, regardless of whether they are married or single parents. They may be found caring on any particular occasion for at least one child of their own, or several children (often including some from other families). Parents can love and care for their developmentally disabled child with a passion to the extent that their only fear is how that child will manage after their demise. Policy priority should be given to the reduction of family poverty, the regulation of workplaces and work schedules so that they are family-friendly, and the enrichment of neighbourhoods in terms of personnel who are responsive to children's needs.
- Subjects
CHILD care; PARENTING; SINGLE parents; PARENT-child relationships; FAMILY-work relationship; CHILDREN with developmental disabilities
- Publication
Family Matters, 2001, Issue 59, p80
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article