Using Kin For Child Care: Embedment in The Socioeconomic Networks of Extended Families  

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Uttal, Lynet

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 61 no. 4 (Nov. 1999), page 845-857.
Topik: child care; racial ethnic; relatives; race; extended family network; familism

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: J43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This exploratory analysis offers a new explanation of why African American and Mexican American mot.'1ers who are employed are more likely than Anglo American mothers to use childcare arrangements with relatives. in-depth interviews With 31 racially diverse employed mothers revealed race and ethnic differences in views of the appropriateness.of using kin-based care. The analysis shows how decisions to use kin-based child care Are shaped not by only the individual needs of the family that requires child care, but also by how 1 families with young children are embedded in the socioeconomic networks of the extended family and take the economic needs of the members of C their extended families into account when making childcare arrangements.

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