In the second half of the twentieth century the "stayat-home mom" became less common. In the early twenty-first century women with young children were much more likely to work outside the home than they had been three decades previously. In 1976 31% of women ages fifteen to forty-four with a child under twelve months old worked; by 2003 that percentage had increased to 53.7%, down fr…
The Forum on Child and Family Statistics reported in America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2003 that about half of children in kindergarten through eighth grade were cared for by someone other than their parents in 2001. Younger children were more likely to receive home-based care or center-based care for before or after-school hours; children in grades four and up were…
TABLE 3.3 time, they argue that there is evidence that quality, center-based care plays a big role in helping preschoolers make a successful transition to school, and that low-income children are in large part missing this opportunity. The Children's Defense Fund also stressed the importance of providing low-income families with child care assistance to help their children succeed (&#x…
While no comprehensive data exist on the types or quality of child-care facilities in the United States, the Children's Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based private national educational nonprofit organization, estimated that in 2004 there were 117,284 regulated child-care centers in the fifty states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands, a 26% percent increase since 1991. T…
In 2000 the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) published The High Cost of Child Care Puts Quality Care out of Reach for Many Families (Washington, DC), which surveyed child-care costs across the country. The survey showed that child care could easily cost a family $4,000 to $6,000 per year, and in some areas more than $10,000 per year. Child-care costs for a four-year-old ranged from $3,380 annu…
Recognizing that child-care assistance helps contribute to a productive workforce, federal and state governments subsidize some child care for those on welfare and for low-income working families. However, the Children's Defense Fund noted in State Developments in Child Care, Early Education, and School-Age Care, 2001 that only one in seven children eligible for child-care assistance receiv…
Employers are increasingly providing family leave beyond the requirements of the FMLA as well as providing FIGURE 3.3 assistance to employees in finding child care. Employers have found that providing such benefits can pay off in increased productivity, worker recruitment and retention, and community goodwill. According to Pilot Survey on the Incidence of Child Care Resource and Referral Serv…
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