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...
Parents will receive a number of supports including a double child benefit payment before Christmas; further reduction in childcare fees, as well as the extension of free school books to second level. However, an increase to the core rate of child benefit is unlikely. Marathon talks between the...
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...
Regina Bushell, managing director of Grovelands Childcare: “There is a sustainability problem if parents only want to do five hours, but there are staff there who need to be paid for 10 hours.” She was left trying to “run a school from home in the afternoons” and look after tw...
Because childcare is an issue that impacts all parents, regardless of their political affiliation, lawmakers are coming together to find common ground and seek solutions to support all working parents. In a Common Grounds discussion moderated by Neil Bradley of the U.S. Chamber of Com...
1. Seek out childcare you and your spouse are comfortable with. 2. If you are nursing, make sure you organize your schedule so that your baby has the maximum amount of breastfeeding while at home. 3. Crunch some numbers and make a goal for coming home. 4. If you have a plan in pl...
AT&T* and WarnerMedia** today announced a $500,000 donation to the YMCA of Greater New York to help create an in-person childcare program for families in the highest need areas of New York City. With schools set to reopen part-time, many parents who do not have the option of working ...
Although extant research demonstrates the negative impact of overparenting on child well-being, there remains a paucity of evidence on the effect of overparenting on the parents’ own well-being. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of overparenting on parental well-being, ...
likely to occur in “problem families” whose parents were “too inefficient” to go out to work, a supposition which illustrated the continued traction of inter-war connections between poverty, heredity, morality and cleanliness (Riley, 1979: 98;Welshman, 1996;Starkey, 2000). Odlum concurred ...
“I was up in Maine at my parents’ house and my sisters were there and it was one of those moments that you’ll never forget,” she says about the dreaded phone call that no one ever expects. Just 72 hours earlier at a routine prenatal checkup, Sarah mentioned the lump she’d rece...