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- Title
The Consequences of Employer Involvement in Child Care.
- Authors
Magid, Renée Yablans
- Abstract
This article explores the benefits to family, home life, work place, parents, children, and child care workers afforded by a variety of current employer practices in child care services and support. The image of the typical American family has been drastically altered in recent years by the increased participation of women in the work force. No longer can the typical family be envisioned with a male head of household supporting his wife and 2.5 children. Today, more than 70 percent of women between the ages of 25 and 34 are working, and, in almost 68 percent of all two-parent families, both parents work. Seventy percent of all single mothers are in the labor force, and mothers with infants and toddlers make up the fastest growing segment in the labor force. A new image of the American family is emerging. It is one in which women and men are assuming new roles. It is one in which concerns about children and their care are becoming a major social and economic issue. The changed reality of the contemporary American family has prompted changes in the nature of the employer-employee relationship. Among some of the nation's employers, concern about the current work-family dynamic has been signaled by employer initiatives for child care.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHILD care; WORKING parents; AMERICAN children; CHILD care services; WOMEN employees
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1989, Vol 90, Issue 3, p434
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818909000303