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Brown-Lyons, Melanie Robertson, Anne Layzer, Jean |
Kith and Kin - Informal Child Care: Highlights from Recent Research Report, New York NY: National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, May 2001. Also: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/nccp/kithkin.html Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) Keyword(s): Child Care; Preschool Children; Transitional Programs; Welfare Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. OVERVIEW Over the last four decades, the steady movement of women with young children into the labor force has been accompanied by a vastly increased use of out-of-home care arrangements for the young children of these working parents. While many children receive care in licensed child care centers, preschools, or licensed family child care homes, a good deal of child care takes place in settings that are, for the most part, not regulated. This type of child care is referred to as "informal" or "kith and kin" care. These terms include care provided by grandmothers, aunts, and other relatives of the child, as well as care by friends and neighbors. They may or may not be legally exempt from state licensing requirements, depending on the state and the specific circumstances. Although these may be the oldest forms of child care, and despite widespread use, kith and kin child care received very little attention from either researchers or policymakers until the late 1980s, when states were required to allow the use of federal subsidies for all legal forms of child care, rather than restrict their use to licensed providers. The passage of welfare reform in 1996 raised concerns that moving large numbers of parents from dependence on cash assistance into the workforce would result in an increase in the proportion of subsidies paid to informal caregivers. The absence of a body of research on this type of care made it difficult to assess the likely consequences for parents (in terms of their ability to obtain and hold onto jobs) and for children's well-being.
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Brown-Lyons, Melanie, Anne Robertson and Jean Layzer. "Kith and Kin - Informal Child Care: Highlights from Recent Research." Report, New York NY: National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, May 2001. |
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Scarbrough, William H. |
Urban Poverty Database Inventory 1992 New York, NY: National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University School of Public Health, 1992 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) Keyword(s): Child Development; Family Studies; Poverty; Urbanization/Urban Living Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The Center, under contract with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), is preparing an urban inventory of existing databases relevant to interdisciplinary research on family processes and development of children and adults living in poor urban areas. The purposes of the project are threefold: to provide guidance to investigators in their search for useful databases; to highlight gaps in available research regarding the effects of living in poor urban areas on families and individuals, particularly young children; and to identify opportunities for adding neighborhood/community-level variables to databases lacking that type of information. The narrative summaries of the more than 150 entries will include substantive as well as technical information on topics such as subject emphases, sample characteristics, attrition, instruments used, periodicity, principal investigators, sources of funding/support, and data accessibility and availability. NCCP will publish the inventory on behalf of SSRC. William Scarbrough, associate director for research, is directing the project. Copyright, 1997, National Center for Children in Poverty |
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Bibliography Citation
Scarbrough, William H. Urban Poverty Database Inventory 1992. New York, NY: National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University School of Public Health, 1992. |