Child Care for Low-Income Families: Directions for Research Summary of A Workshop (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Child Care and Children's Development
Child Care and Children's Development
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Moreover, the quality of care available to Tow-income families is highly variable, quality matters because, as numerous observational studies have clemonstrated, variation in quality has discernible effects on chiTclren's clevelopment, perhaps more so for [oqv-income chi7~rerc. A sizable minority of the care arrangements available to low-income children falls into a range of quality that some conclude may compromise development, and there is a very limited supply of arrangements at the high enc]
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Unstable child care affects all families, but poor and low~income fami ~ lies are unduly affected by irregular and shifting work schedules, marginal employment, and in some cases, the financial necessity of relying on fragile and therefore unstable child care arrangements. Instability of care is of special concem for infants, a third of whom experience at least three did ferent arrangements in the first year of life (National institute of Child Health and Human Development, 1995~.
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Participants suggested that future research consider what short- and tong-term effects chilc! care has on the lives of low-income children and how much of an intervention is neeciec!
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Expansion of Child Care Ejects As more and younger children spend increasing amounts of time with caregivers who are not family members ant] the very role of child care changes from one of provicling supplemental experiences to one of provicl~ ing basic socialization, researchers will need to reconsider the narrow range of outcomes that are typically inclucled in child care stuclies.
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to rectify the relative inattention paid to informal child care arrangements, to consicler more policy-relevant inclices (e.g., reimbursement rates relative to cost of care, access to public and private subsidies, participation in state anc] local quality improvement initiatives)
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referral agencies that maintain sizable databases on the local supply ancl characteristics of chilcl care, as well as in conjunction with monitoring activities that are carried out by regulatory agencies and also involve ciata collection. Future research shouicl assess the critical dimensions of quality for in' formal child care arrangements and determine what strategies short of regulation ant]
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