Piecing Together Child Care with Multiple Arrangements: Crazy Quilt or Preferred Pattern for Employed Parents of Preschool Children?

1994 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Fox Folk ◽  
Yunae Yi
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Employed Parents

Who Cares? Motivations for Unregulated Child Care Use

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (17) ◽  
pp. 4066-4088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhonda Breitkreuz ◽  
Kerryn Colen
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Care Environment ◽  
Policy Context ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Focus Group Data ◽  
Key Drivers

This article explores the motivations for unregulated child care use within Canada. Using focus group data from 109 mothers, we analyze unregulated child care use within a policy context in which regulated child care is only available for 20% of preschool children. The key drivers for unregulated care were framed by participants as benefits: trust in a known caregiver with similar values, offered in a home-like environment. Importantly, one driver that was not seen as beneficial was the lack of affordable and accessible, regulated child care. Sometimes used as a last resort amid regulated child care shortages, unregulated care became the driver of how mothers organized their time. Within the constraints of a limited regulatory child care environment, we argue that Mathieu’s (2016) concept of demotherization is beyond the grasp of the majority of Canadian mothers.

scholarly journals Sympathy in the context of mother-child and teacher-child relationships

2001 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 302-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jutta Kienbaum ◽  
Cordelia Volland ◽  
Dieter Ulich
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Maternal Behaviour ◽  
Prosocial Behaviour ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Context Specificity ◽  
Child Characteristics ◽  
Person Variables

Two studies were carried out to investigate relations between socialisation influences, person variables, and sympathy, as well as prosocial behaviour in 5-year-old preschool children. Specifically, we were interested in the interactions between child characteristics (sex, inhibition toward strangers) and the socialisation practices of child care teachers (Study I) and mothers’ caregiving style (Study II). Participants in Study I were 105 five-year-old children who were confronted with the simulated distress of a puppet; 25 teachers were observed while interacting with the children during free play, and 93 parents rated their child’s inhibition. Participants in Study II were 79 five-year-old children and their mothers. As in Study I, the children’s reactions to distress were observed. The mothers rated their child’s inhibition and participated in an interview to assess the quality of their caregiving style. Positive, albeit weak, relations occurred between child care teachers’ warmth and children’s sympathetic-prosocial reactions to distress; no direct effects emerged for maternal behaviour. Negative, albeit weak, associations were found between inhibition and sympathetic-prosocial reactions. These relations improved when interactions between sex, inhibition, and the caregiving style of the teachers (but not of the mothers) were taken into account. The results are discussed with regard to the context-specificity of socialisation.

Thresholds in the association between child care quality and child outcomes in rural preschool children

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Burchinal ◽  
Lynne Vernon-Feagans ◽  
Virginia Vitiello ◽  
Mark Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Child Care Quality

Paternal Separation Anxiety: Relationships With Parenting Stress, Child-Rearing Attitudes, and Maternal Anxieties

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 341-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirby Deater-Deckard ◽  
Sandra Scarr ◽  
Kathleen McCartney ◽  
Marlene Eisenberg
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Separation Anxiety ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Employed Mothers ◽  
Employment Concerns

Employed mothers of young children worry about the effects of daily separation on their children Do fathers have similar anxieties? Because fathers are expected to leave the home and go to work, psychologists have not studied fathers' concerns about daily separation from their babies and preschool children In this study, we investigated fathers' and mothers' separation anxiety and the relationships between separation anxiety and family and child-care characteristics The sample included 589 married couples from a larger study of families and center-based child care Data were collected through in-home and center visits Fathers and mothers had similar levels of Separation Anxiety However, fathers reported slightly higher Concern for the Child, and mothers reported higher Employment Concerns Fathers' perceptions of their wives' anxieties were higher by half a standard deviation compared with mothers' reports Fathers' and mothers self-reported separation anxieties were modestly correlated Paternal separation anxiety was most strongly associated with fathers' perceptions of their wives' separation concerns, not with mothers' reported anxieties, which suggested ego defensiveness and projection

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