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Child Care for Low-Income Families: Directions for Research Summary of A Workshop (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Child Care and Economic Self-Sufficiency
Pages 11-14

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From page 11...
... care environments that not only will enable parents to work, but also will benefit children, help prepare them for school, anc3 perhaps recluce the odds of welfare clependence in the next generation. Others, faced with pressures to control public costs that typically accompany welfare reform initiatives, are forced to think in terms of the minimum amount that can be done so that child care costs and problems do not interfere with the primary government cost reduction aims of reform initiatives.
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From page 12...
... inclicates that child care plays a pivotal role in keeping parents employecT, as well as in helping those on public assistance move into the paid labor force. Access to free or tow-cost care or, absent this, to financial assistance with chiTc]
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From page 13...
... care (type, stability, quality) and parental perceptions of care are most strongly associated with parents' long- and short-term efforts to attain selfsufficiency: Participants noted a need for observational studies of child care quality in the context of welfare initiatives to counteract the prevailing reliance on parental reports of quality, which are not adequate proxies.
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From page 14...
... care research in an even broacler context, so that it includes family and work issues as a whole, more coup] be learned about the effect on families' chilcT care arrangements of low-wage jobs, unpreclictable anti inflexible work schedules, moclest meclical ant]
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