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- Title
Market Child Care Versus Care by Relatives.
- Authors
Kuhlthau, Karen; Mason, Karen Oppenheim
- Abstract
The article investigates the determinants of the type of child care used by mothers with preschool-aged children in the United States. This article investigates the determinants of the type of child care used by mothers of preschool-aged children. The particular focus is on whether mothers choose care provided by the marketplace or instead rely on relatives and family members.' The market and nonmarket distinction is important because government policies have tended to focus on market care, for example, by providing low-income women with subsidies that can be used only with licensed child care providers. The present article analyzes a survey of mothers of preschool-aged children living in the Detroit metropolitan area that offers several advantages over other data sets. In addition to including measures of family role ideology and child care preferences, the survey ascertained child care patterns both for employed mothers and for mothers out of the labor force. In general, the availability of caregivers is likely to increase their use. Thus women living with a husband, and those with relatives living nearby, should be more likely to rely on related caregivers than do their counterparts who lack related caregivers.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MOTHER-child relationship; PRESCHOOL children; CHILD care; MOTHERS; PRIMARY care
- Publication
Journal of Family Issues, 1996, Vol 17, Issue 4, p561
- ISSN
0192-513X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/019251396017004007