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Families across America are pressed to find childcare that they can afford, trust and rely on. This researcher intends to identify, correlate and summarize various articles, publications, case studies and academic literature to assist him in this study of childcare conflicts and working parents.
Identification.
Growth in the number of day care centers and other forms of non-parental care for children has accompanied this increase in working mothers. But for many families, finding affordable, quality childcare can be a problem. Good care with persons other than relatives is often difficult to find or is too expensive, especially for families with low incomes. For poor mothers, lack of childcare can be a particularly serious obstacle in obtaining and holding a job (Cattan, P. 1991). The study of work and family life is relatively new. Most studies have investigated either how life on the job affects life at home, or conversely, how life at home affects life on the job. There have been a few attempts to connect it all. The 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce provides a model for understanding how work, family and personal life fit together, a model that incorporates outcomes important to all, productivity and well being (NSCW, …show more content…
Of these families, the following can be considered likely to have work-related child care requirements: 15.0 million married couple families with both wife and husband as earners; and 4.7 million families maintained by women, (with the householder as earner) and 1.1 million families maintained by men (with the householder as earner).(5)
Among married couple families with both husband and wife as earners, there were 25.5 million children under age 14 in March of 1999; families maintained by women, (with the householder as earner) had 7.5 million children and families maintained by men (with the householder as earner) had 1.7 million children.(6)
Where Are Preschool Children Cared For?(7)
According to the 1997 National Survey of America's Families, nationwide, a large percentage (76 percent) of preschool children with employed mothers are regularly cared for by someone other than their parents.
For more than half of preschool children with employed mothers, the primary childcare provider is not related to the child:
32 percent of children are in center-based childcare arrangements; 16 percent are in family childcare; and 6 percent are regularly cared for by a babysitter or nanny in the child's
Identification.
Growth in the number of day care centers and other forms of non-parental care for children has accompanied this increase in working mothers. But for many families, finding affordable, quality childcare can be a problem. Good care with persons other than relatives is often difficult to find or is too expensive, especially for families with low incomes. For poor mothers, lack of childcare can be a particularly serious obstacle in obtaining and holding a job (Cattan, P. 1991). The study of work and family life is relatively new. Most studies have investigated either how life on the job affects life at home, or conversely, how life at home affects life on the job. There have been a few attempts to connect it all. The 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce provides a model for understanding how work, family and personal life fit together, a model that incorporates outcomes important to all, productivity and well being (NSCW, …show more content…
Of these families, the following can be considered likely to have work-related child care requirements: 15.0 million married couple families with both wife and husband as earners; and 4.7 million families maintained by women, (with the householder as earner) and 1.1 million families maintained by men (with the householder as earner).(5)
Among married couple families with both husband and wife as earners, there were 25.5 million children under age 14 in March of 1999; families maintained by women, (with the householder as earner) had 7.5 million children and families maintained by men (with the householder as earner) had 1.7 million children.(6)
Where Are Preschool Children Cared For?(7)
According to the 1997 National Survey of America's Families, nationwide, a large percentage (76 percent) of preschool children with employed mothers are regularly cared for by someone other than their parents.
For more than half of preschool children with employed mothers, the primary childcare provider is not related to the child:
32 percent of children are in center-based childcare arrangements; 16 percent are in family childcare; and 6 percent are regularly cared for by a babysitter or nanny in the child's