scholarly journals Uptake of Childcare Arrangements—Grandparental Availability and Availability of Formal Childcare

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Naomi Biegel ◽  
Karel Neels ◽  
Layla Van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Informal Care ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Formal Care ◽  
Multinomial Regression ◽  
Contextual Data ◽  
Care Arrangement ◽  
Combined Use ◽  
Formal Childcare

Grandparents constitute an important source of childcare to many parents. Focusing on the Belgian context, this paper improves our understanding of childcare decision-making by investigating how formal childcare availability and availability of grandparents affect childcare arrangements. By means of multinomial regression models we simultaneously model uptake of formal and informal childcare by parents. Combining linked microdata from the Belgian censuses with contextual data on childcare at the level of municipalities, we consider formal childcare availability at a local level, while including a wide array of characteristics which may affect grandparental availability. Results indicate that increasing formal care crowds-out informal care as the sole care arrangement, whereas combined use of formal and informal care becomes more prevalent. Characteristics indicating a lack of grandmaternal availability increase uptake of formal care and inhibit to a lesser extent the uptake of combined formal and informal care. While increasing formal care substitutes informal care use, the lack of availability of informal care by grandparents may be problematic, particularly for those families most prone to use informal care.

Helpt kinderopvang de herintreding van moeders stimuleren?

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Didier Fouarge
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Regional Demand ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Formal Childcare

Does more childcare stimulate mothers to re-enter the labour market? Does more childcare stimulate mothers to re-enter the labour market? Previous research has shown that the supply of formal childcare facilities has a positive effect on the labour market participation of mothers with young children. When the supply of childcare facilities is higher, the probability that a female keeps on working after the birth of a child is larger. But does childcare also helps non-working mothers to join the labour force? This research shows that it is not the case. The research was carried out on administrative panel data to which data on the regional supply of childcare and the regional demand for labour were matched. It shows that the supply of childcare does not play a significant role in the re-entry in the labour market of mothers. The age of the child and the demand for labour in the region play an important role.

The social investment approach and gender division of housework across East Asia and Europe

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-188
Author(s):  
Mi Young An
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Division Of Housework ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Formal Childcare

This chapter discusses the issue of the gender division of housework, focusing on how formal childcare services and parental leave provisions are related to it. It comparatively studies the extent to which family policies are related to housework division in countries in East Asia and Europe. The chapter finds parental leave, which supports women as paid workers, is significant in Europe, but formal childcare services, which support women's deviant gender-roles, are significant when the examination is extended to East Asian countries. Gendered political power relations become significant only when Japan and Korea are added to the analysis. Neither gender-role ideology nor structural constraints, measured as gender wage gap, was an important macro-level factor. Ultimately, the chapter addresses how these results are related to the social investment approach to family and explains why the division of housework in East Asian countries remains highly gendered.

The impact of nurse home visiting on the use, dose and quality of formal childcare: 3-year follow-up of a randomized trial

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Price ◽  
Shalika Bohingamu Mudiyanselage ◽  
Rachel Schembri ◽  
Fiona Mensah ◽  
Lynn Kemp ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
Nurse Home ◽  
Nurse Home Visiting ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Formal Childcare

scholarly journals Barriers to accessing formal childcare among disadvantaged populations: a cognitive approach - Master 's thesis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laudine Carbuccia
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Psychological Barriers ◽  
Daycare Centers ◽  
Barriers To Access ◽  
New Public ◽  
Formal Childcare

While formal childcare facilities or ECEC (i.e., mainly daycare centers and childminders) are very effective levers for reducing developmental inequalities present in early childhood, these facilities are themselves marked by strong inequalities in access. The reasons for the under-representation of disadvantaged families have already been studied, but not in a systematic way. The review work presented in this thesis made it possible to 1) construct an integrative model of barriers to access to formal childcare for these populations and 2) evaluate this model through a PRISMA systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature. socio-structural barriers are the only ones targeted by current public policies. However, our review shows that psychological barriers, which have never been theorized before, are at least as important as these socio-structural barriers. New public policies should be created to act on psychological barriers, otherwise, the effectiveness of structural reforms could be severely limited.

Maternal depression symptoms, child behavior problems, and their transactional relations: Probing the role of formal childcare

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 831-844
Author(s):  
Chantal Paquin ◽  
Natalie Castellanos-Ryan ◽  
Frank Vitaro ◽  
Sylvana M. Côté ◽  
Richard E. Tremblay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Maternal Depression ◽  
Child Behavior ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Child Behavior Problems ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing Problems ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing ◽  
Formal Childcare

AbstractAmong children exposed to elevated maternal depression symptoms (MDS), recent studies have demonstrated reduced internalizing and externalizing problems for those who have attended formal childcare (i.e., center-based, family-based childcare). However, these studies did not consider whether childcare attendance is associated with benefits for the child only or also with reduced MDS. Using a four-wave longitudinal cross-lagged model, we evaluated whether formal childcare attendance was associated with MDS or child behavior problems and whether it moderated longitudinal associations between MDS and child behavior problems and between child behavior problems and MDS. The sample was drawn from a population-based cohort study and consisted of 908 biologically related mother–child dyads, followed from 5 months to 5 years. Attending formal childcare was not associated with MDS or child behavior problems but moderated the association between MDS at 3.5 years and child internalizing and externalizing problems at 5 years as well as between girls’ externalizing problems at 3.5 years and MDS at 5 years. No other moderation of formal childcare was found. Findings suggest that attending formal childcare reduces the risks of behavior problems in the context of MDS but also the risk of MDS in the context of girls’ externalizing problems.

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