On Sept. 30, the emergency childcare funding Congress allocated during the pandemic, which included $24 billion in childcare stabilization grants, is set to expire. Over the past two years, that money was used by childcare providers to increase employees’ salaries, cover expenses like...
Many working parents have faced the challenge of finding affordable childcare in the past decades, with the issue being exacerbated further by the pandemic. Parents, especially women, have largely been forced to choose between paying rising childcare rates or temporarily leaving the workforce. Becau...
Caregivers aren’t just parents of young children. They’re people caring for an ailing spouse, aging relatives, and grown children with disabilities. And let’s face it, women are disproportionately tasked with caregiving responsibilities, which makes them more vulnerable to interruptions in their ...
While adapting to changes in work demands, reconciling childcare and family responsibili- ties with work became more difficult [7]. This accumula- tion of psychosocial work stressors may put the mental health of working parents at risk. Studies shortly initiated after the outbreak of the pan- ...
An offshoot of India's hyper-active IT-BPO industry, they are springing up in buzzing hubs such as Bangalore, Chennai and Gurgaon to help busy parents juggle careers with their desire to make savvy achievers of their kids - while hoping they would get the parental warmth they themselves had...
Men are vastly underrepresented in early childhood education and care, particularly in childcare work. To uncover stereotypes that motivate or hinder suppo
'Grandparents Are the Next Best Thing': Informal Childcare for Working Parents in Urban Britain This article is based on a unique empirical investigation of the contribution that informal childcare – relatives, friends or neighbours looking after c... J Wheelock,K Jones - 《Journal of Social ...
Clearly, parents spend the most time around their children, which means they can have the biggest, beneficial impact or a bad impact. Parents have the option of being very helpful throughout their child’s school years or they can neglect them and let them figure life out on their own. Pa...
When only one of the parents had a job, we considered the non-employed parent as the most likely main caregiver of the child. Several individual factors such as the child’s age, sex, number of siblings and parents’ country of birth were used as control variables, as well as dummy ...
We’ve been through a lot the past few years: A global pandemic took loved ones' lives and left parents juggling full-time jobs with no childcare. College graduates navigated their first professional jobs without lunch buddies or in-person mentors. Elections and wars divide...