Exploring the Neighborhood Family Day Care System

Collins, Alice H.; Watson, Eunice L.

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“…Various satellite arrangements, for sharing, coordinating resources, and providing opportunities for multiple child care arrangements for families with siblings of various ages were probed in the last decade (ClarkeStewart, 1977;Collins, 1969). The reports on these efforts are still scattered and too sparse for general observations.…”

Section: Family Day Care and Center-based Care: A Continuing Debatementioning

confidence: 98%

“…References to recruitment and retention strategies, career development opportunities, information and referral projects, and supervision activities reflect the sweep of efforts which engaged a growing group of professionals (see, for example, Collins & Watson, 1969;Costin & Gruener, 1965;Radin, 1970;USDHEW, 1977). Various demonstration projects emerged investigating methods of selecting caregivers and attempting to devise strategies to stabilize the continuity of this resource within the community (Carter & Ayton, Note 4; Collins, Note 5).…”

Section: Family Day Care and Center-based Care: A Continuing Debatementioning

confidence: 99%

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Family Day Care

Wattenberg

1982

Marriage & Family Review

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The child care debate of the 1970s has been caught in the crossfire of conflicting ideologies and social policy uncertainties. Family day care, a largely informal but widely used enterprise, has emerged from this debate as a n indispensable component of child care arrangements. This article reviews the literature on this mode of child care. Characteristics of the unstructured nature of family day care, intended to replicate the climate of the "natural" home, are explored. The changes in this informal system, with its increasing need to conform to regulation because of public subsidies, are delineated. The turbulent history of family day care regulation, which now stimulates a n interest in new regulatory strategies, is noted. Research efforts in family day care are reviewed and the conclusion is reached that the data fail to demonstrate with unequivocable clarity a reliable direction for social policy. Further research directions are recommended. For the next decade, in which child care arrangements will take on particular importance, both the public and private sectors should systematically explore this informal mode of child care and its place in a range of child care arrangements.

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Section: Family Day Care and Center-based Care: A Continuing Debatementioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Family Day Care and Center-based Care: A Continuing Debatementioning

confidence: 99%