Child Care
| Publication | Category | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Long-Term Foster Care—Different Needs, Different Outcomes This brief examines where foster children are living four years after removal from their homes and the characteristics of these children and their placements. Understanding whether child characteristics such as age or emotional or behavioral problems are associated… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Children, Family, Safety Net |
| Hard Times Made Harder: Struggling Caregivers and Child Neglect Poverty is only one of many challenges tied to a report of child neglect. The analysis in this brief finds that neglected children whose caregivers struggle with substance abuse and mental health problems are at significant risk for out-of-home placement. Risk… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Children, Health, Poverty |
| Low Income and Impoverished Families Pay Disproportionately More for Child Care According to research based on the 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation, working families with young children living in poverty pay 32 percent of their income on child care, nearly five times more than families living at more than 200 percent of the… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Family, Poverty, Safety Net |
| Employment Rates Higher Among Rural Mothers Than Urban Mothers As men's jobs in traditional rural industries, such as agriculture, natural resource extraction, and manufacturing disappear due to restructuring of rural labor markets, the survival of the family increasingly depends on women's waged labor. Rural mothers… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Employment, Family, Rural, Urban, Women |
| Low Wages Prevalent In Direct Care and Child Care Workforce The large-scale movement of women into the paid labor market has brought sweeping change into family life and also in who cares for the elderly and children. This brief studies workers in two low wage, predominantly female care-giving occupations plagued with high… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Employment, Women |
| Rural Families Choose Home-Based Child Care for their Preschool-Aged Children This policy brief examines who is taking care of preschoolers of employed mothers in rural America. While most rural families choose home-based child care (such as relatives or informal nonrelated care providers), formal care (such as in day care centers) has… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Children, Education, Family, Rural |
