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Forry, Nicole D. "The impact of child care subsidies on child care problems, child care-related work disruptions, and mothers' desire to switch care." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7030.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Family Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Alexandris, Maria. "Carer-child relationships in permanent care programs." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2008. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/4c7a438e8a96fbf511dc1ffa52fb053338a580a8fc2e91b60e00512cc1fb942f/2144191/64777_downloaded_stream_2.pdf.
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Over the past 20 years, there has been a steady increase in permanent care placements in Australia, however, relatively little research has been conducted on how to best support this growing population. Little is known about what variables contribute to the development and preservation of positive carer-child relationships. The current study examined the relationship of carer and child variables in permanent care carerchild relationships. In particular, the role that carer empathy, carer parenting style, child emotional and behavioural problems, child temperament, and child resilience played in the prediction of carer-child relationships was investigated. Using quantitative and qualitative approaches, the current study gathered data from a total of 46 permanent carers in Victoria. Participants were permanent carers who had at least one child aged between 3-12 years. Carers were recruited from metropolitan and rural permanent care agencies. Participants completed a questionnaire booklet on their empathy, parenting styles, their relationship with their child, and on child variables including emotional and behavioural difficulties, temperament, and resilience. Thirteen carers also participated in the qualitative part of the study, consisting of an interview that aimed to further target the study's key variables. It was hypothesised that both carer and child variables would correlate with and predict carer-child relationships and that carer variables would emerge as the strongest predictors. The findings from the quantitative analyses indicated that carer variables were less important in predicting carer-child relationships and only authoritarian parenting was related to less positive carer-child relationships. Child variables, particularly the emotional and behavioural difficulties children manifested, had greater significance in the prediction of carer-child relationships.;Qualitative data were consistent with quantitative findings, showing that it was the child's troubling behaviours which were the most taxing on the development of positive carer-child relationships. Where carers perceived improvements in their children's behaviours or could recognise positive aspects in their children and their relationships with them, this seemed to support carer-child relationships. From a policy-driven perspective, it is in the best interests of permanent care agencies to connect children and their carers with services and strategies which help promote child adjustment and well-being, whilst simultaneously educating carers on how to most effectively manage the emotional and behavioural challenges evidenced by their children.
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Kwon, Sungjoon. "Essays on Child Care and Child Development." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1555081885197715.
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Sebastian, Rachel A. "Child care as 'concerted cultivation' parenting orientation and child care arrangements for preschoolers /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1204745653.
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Thesis (M.A. of Sociology)--University of Cincinnati, 2007.Advisor: Dr. David J. Maume. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed May 8, 2008). Includes abstract. Keywords: child care; parenting; social class. Includes bibliographical references.
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Burke, Danica. "Child care choices: Factors that predict a match in mothers' child care preferences." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/2437.
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There were several issues investigated in the present study: (a) what factors are most important to mothers in choosing child care; (b) the relationship between marital status, income, education, prior child-care seeking experience and finding a match to preference of child care; (c) child-care factors that are most common in not obtaining a match, and (d) the opinion of mothers on how readily available good child care is in their community. A 19-question survey was administered to 37 mothers who were graduate and undergraduate students at WSU, living in the Prairie Woods Home Addition, or employed at the Sedgwick County Special Education Cooperative Office who have sought child care for a child within the last two years. These mothers overwhelmingly were able to secure child care of their preference for their child. There were no differences found in child-care choices among the mothers due to demographic differences. They reported that quality of the child-care program, quality of the facility or home, and warmth and friendliness of the provider were the most important factors in a child care. Interestingly, the factors of cost, location, and/or hours of operation or flexibility of child care were not top factors in finding a child care for the mothers from this sample. The findings suggest that more research needs to be done on the opinions and feelings of mothers with less education or income.Thesis (M.Ed.)--Wichita State University, College of Education, Dept. of Counseling, Educational and School Psychology
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Sebastian, Rachel A. "Child Care as ‘Concerted Cultivation’: Parenting Orientation and Child Care Arrangements for Preschoolers." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1204745653.
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Newell, Amy Noël Abell Ellen Elizabeth. "Quality in family child care the voice of the family child care provider /." Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1632.
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Marshall, Stephanie. "Deconstructing child care, understanding the factors impacting upon staff turnover in child care centres." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ56348.pdf.
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Kjulin, Urban. "Economic perspectives on child care /." Göteborg : Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögsk, 1995. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=007056634&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Mongado, Blair Coja. "Essays in Child Care Quality." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26186.
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This research investigates three topics in child care quality, motherâ s labor supply, and early childhood development. In the first study, we evaluate how child care quality influences the potential impacts of mothersâ labor supply on child development. Although, previous studies have acknowledged the importance of the quality of child care, none have integrated quality in analyzing the effects of maternal employment. We find that the negative effect often found in past studies is largely due to the use of low quality child care.
The question we ask in the next study is, "What are the effects of child care quality on child development?" In this study we tried to separate out the contribution of initial child ability in child test scores of development from the effects of other inputs, particularly child care quality. We show that even after resolving endogeneity issues, we still find that child care quality has a significant positive effect on early cognitive development.
The third study investigates the determinants of householdsâ demand for child care, particularly, child care quality. We determine if householdsâ choices regarding child care quality, as well as quantity, respond to economic factors. A familyâ s condition is defined by the combination of family choices on motherâ s work status, mode and payment type of child care, and childâ s age. We group families by condition and estimate demand for child care quality and hours by group. The results indicate that higher income will lead to higher quality for non-working mothers but lower quality for some working mothers. Demand for quality by non-working mothers are more price sensitive than working mothers. Wage effects on quality are positive only for users of home-based care. Demand for quality is more sensitive to economic factors when the child is around 3 years old than at 6 months. These results suggest that the form, target and timing of financial assistance need to be considered for it to be effective in promoting the use of quality care.Ph. D.
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Whiteford, Chrystal Michelle. "Early child care in Australia : quality of care, experiences of care and developmental outcomes for Australian children." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/81298/1/Chrystal_Whiteford_Thesis.pdf.
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In early childhood research, one of the most debated topics is that of early child care. This thesis draws upon data from Growing Up In Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children to explore the role of early child care in Australia. It examines the quality of early child care accessed by infants, the patterns of child care use across the early years and the impact of early child care experiences on academic, social-emotional and health outcomes at 6 to 7 years of age. Results indicate child care experiences vary considerably and suggest early child care experiences may have both positive and negative impacts upon later developmental outcomes.
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Jaffer, Khadija. "Child safety in day care centres within the Western Cape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27004.
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The aim of the study is to explore aspects of child safety in registered day care centres situated in a lower socio-economic area of the Cape Town Metropole. This can be achieved by: a) describing the physical environment in day care centres b) assessing the infrastructure of day care centres to deal with potential injurjes c) reviewing injury reporting systems already in place d) highlighting the issue of child safety in the course of conducting the study.
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Thill, Abbie M. "Parents perceptions of the care their child receives in child care facilities in Barron County Wisconsin." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2005. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2005/2005thilla.pdf.
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Smith, Roger Shipley. "Values and practice in child care." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/34516.
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This study seeks to promote an improved understanding of the relationship between policy and practice in child care. It addresses the general question of the relationship between values, or Ideologies, and practice in social welfare, identifying a number of critical concerns about the way this relationship is theorised and understood. Emerging from this consideration, it is suggested that a clearer understanding of this relationship in the context of child welfare would be helpful. In order to achieve this objective, the study develops and applies a methodological framework utilising the notion of "value positions", developed previously by Fox Harding (1982, 1991a; 1991b; 1991c); and rooted in the notion of "ideal types" conceived originally by Weber. The study applies this framework to a number of substantive areas. It is progressively applied to recent child care history, policy developments and political debates, practice outcomes, and agencies' approaches to child welfare. Each of these substantive elements of the study provide further illumination of significant child care issues in its own right; but, in addition, taken together, they provide a stronger foundation for the conclusions ultimately drawn. On this basis, the study is able to derive a number of conclusions, both about the effectiveness of the methodological approach undertaken, and about the substantive question of change and development in welfare provision for children. It is concluded that there is some value in applying a methodological framework based on key "value positions" in child care, despite its potential limitations. In relation to the substantive Issue of child welfare, it is argued that the need to negotiate the conflicting demands of differing perspectives, allied to the continuing resilience of a broad commitment to the needs of children, provide some grounds for cautious optimism about future developments.
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Pietersen, Marisa. "Child care workers' management of sexualised behaviour displayed by children in residential child and youth care centres." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1644.
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Children have been shown to respond differently to the hurt that they suffer at the hands of others. Some of these responses involve internalised behaviours (i.e., repression of feelings, bodily symptoms, etc.); whilst others hurt manifest as externalised behaviours, such as physical attacks on others. These may include sexualised behaviours. The latter is particularly common amongst (but not restricted to) children who have been sexually abused (The American Psychological Association, 2001). For the purposes of this study a distinction is made between developmentally appropriate sexual behaviour and non normative sexualised behaviour which evoke complaints from and discomfort in those involved in the behaviour. The manifestation of these sexualised behaviours is especially pronounced amongst children in institutional care; and hence, it calls for constructive and effective management by the child care workers who are primarily responsible for their safe care and behaviour modification whilst in the institution. This qualitative study – with an exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design – served to explore how the child care workers’ effective management of such behaviours could be enhanced, so that the emotional wellbeing of both the “offender” and the “perpetrator” of this behaviour can be promoted. A non-probability purposive sampling technique was employed to recruit research participants from three different child and youth care centres in Port Elizabeth. A total number of 10 research participants were involved and data was collected up to the point of data saturation. Thematic content analysis was utilised for the analysis of the data and the necessary strategies were employed to enhance the trustworthiness of the data and to meet all the ethical requirements of the study. The main findings alert to the key requirements of Child and Youth Care Workers; it confirms the occurrence of sexualised behaviours; the urgent need for a consistent approach to the management of such behaviours; and for enhanced team work between the helping professionals in the team. The value of the study is embedded in the contributions it can make to practical interventions for children in institutional care, and to the sparse body of knowledge in this area.
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Linder, Laura A. Butterfield. "The ideology of care explaining the politics of child care in the United States, France, and Israel /." Click here for download, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1633770391&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Coonce, Donna J. "Empowering parents in their child care decisions /." View online, 1997. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211998827285.pdf.
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Putnam, Robin Irene Abell Ellen Elizabeth. "Social support and the quality of child care practices among participants in the Family Child Care Partnerships program." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Fall/Theses/PUTNAM_ROBIN_48.pdf.
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Tyabashe, Babalwa. "Assessing the relationship between food security, the child support grant and child care arrangements." University of the Western Cape, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7283.
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Magister Artium (Social Work) - MA(SW)Food insecurity exists when people lack access to sufficient quantities of safe and nutritious food which encourages normal growth and development. Given South Africa’s high poverty and unemployment levels, food insecurity has become endemic in many communities. The purpose of the study was to determine and explore the relationship between food insecurity, child care arrangements and the child support grant (CSG). The study was conducted among a sample of 120 participants, comprising both CSG recipients and non-recipients (who were purposefully selected from an ongoing cohort study), residing in Langa township in Cape Town. A sequential, mixed-model research design was used, in which both qualitative and quantitative research methods were applied. Data was collected by means of questionnaires, interviews and focus groups. The results were analysed using SPSS and Atlas ti software. The ecological systems theory being used as a theoretical framework to explore the different dimensions of child care arrangements. In the literature it is hypothesised that food insecure families are more likely to have child care arrangement instabilities. Interestingly, the study’s findings did not support this hypothesis. Although most of the participants were unemployed, they generally stayed at home to care for their children because they were recipients of the CSG. Therefore, despite being food insecure, many households had stable child care arrangements because of the CSG. Child support grant recipient households experienced hunger less acutely than households that did not receive the grant. Of course, social protection mechanisms, like grants, do not represent a sustainable solution to South Africa’s unemployment and food insecurity challenges. The researcher therefore provides a number of recommendations on how government and civil society can ameliorate the plight of poor households.
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Holmlund, Linda. "Essays on Child Care and Higher Education." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Nationalekonomi, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-26013.
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This thesis consists of a summary and four self-contained papers. Paper [I] examines whether fathers influence the time their children spend in subsidized child care. Two non-nested models of family child care demand are estimated. The parameter estimates indicate that several characteristics of the father are associated with the time his child spends in child care. J-tests and bootstrapped J-tests also show that a model where the father’s characteristics are excluded can be rejected in favour of a model where his characteristics are included. Paper [II] considers the effects of the Swedish child care fee reform on public expenditures and taxation in the municipalities. A difference-in-difference approach is employed where outcomes are compared with respect to the municipalities’ pre-reform fee systems. The results show that pre-reform characteristics determine taxes and child care expenditures in the post-reform period. It is also found that changes in child care quality were not connected to the pre-reform systems characteristics. Paper [III] provides evidence of the effect of college quality on earnings in Sweden. The results suggest that the link between college quality and earnings is weak. A small positive effect is found for individuals that are likely to work full time. Controlling for region of work affects the estimated effects, indicating a correlation between choice of college quality and choice of labour market region. In Paper [IV], earnings differences between transfer and non-transfer students are analysed. The results show that earnings, during the first years after leaving the university, are significantly lower for students who change universities compared to students who do not change. The earnings differences decrease significantly over time and over the earnings distribution.
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McKee, Julie. "Corporate initiatives in providing child care services." Virtual Press, 1985. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/421945.
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This thesis explores the initiatives possible for corporations interested in providing child care services to their employees. It also attempts to explain why corporations are becoming increasingly interested in providing this benefit to employees.A needs assessment survey was designed to discover the child care related needs of employees and to determine how child care responsibilities impact the work environment. An exploratory study was conducted of a sample of employees (N=127) at General Telephone in Fort Wayne, Indiana.Most employees, parents and non-parents, in this sample believed that child care responsibilities adversely affected productivity within their company. They also felt that company-sponsored child care assistance could improve productivity. Using the chi-square test of significance, child care responsibilities were significantly related to increased rates of absenteeism, work interruptions and turnover. There was substantial interest among employees in a corporate sponsored child care center and/or financial assistance to reduce the cost of child care expenses.
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Al-Ali, Ibrahim Jassim. "Child care policy and fostering in Kuwait." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.238135.
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Lazaro, Philippe. "Institutionalized Child Care in Urban South Africa." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22274.
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In the developing world, child care institutions often involve more complexity than is typically reflected by the word “orphanage.” In many instances, children do not fit the widespread definition of an orphan as one with with deceased parents. Oftentimes, institutions play a partial role in a child’s development by contributing towards childcare in collaboration with a relative, an ill parent, or nearby kin. In South Africa, the need and complexity surrounding the role of child care institutions is further amplified by the region’s longstanding HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Through a primarily ethnographic study, I sought to understand and relay the nuances of a child care center in Hillbrow, an urban neighborhood in central Johannesburg known for its crime and gang proliferation. Through the developmental stages of intake and early childhood, middle childhood, and late adolesence and outward transition, I explored how children overcome traumatic pasts with the help of the center, how the center struggles with the material burdens of providing to children with a wide array of needs, and how the process of transitioning into adulthood is handled by the children and their caretakers. In conclusion, I explore the non-negotiable elements of the center’s approach to child care and make further recommendations for other institutions in a similar context as well as future academic research.
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Thoen, Karen Mary. "Staff training in the child care setting." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998thoenk.pdf.
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Moritz, Erin Denise. "Staphylococcus aureus in Iowa child care facilities." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2949.
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Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a ubiquitous bacterium that has the potential to cause severe disease in children and adults. Asymptomatic carriage of S. aureus is an important risk factor for developing infection, as well as a key contributor to transmission. Despite the fact that child care workers are at risk of infections, little research has focused on asymptomatic carriage of S. aureus in this occupational group. We collected samples from 110 employees, 81 children, and 214 surfaces at twelve child care facilities, as well as 111 age- and gender-matched adults not employed at child care centers. After adjusting for age, a household contact with a recent influenza-like illness, and a household contact with exposure to cattle, the odds ratio for S. aureus carriage in child care employees was 0.68 (95% CI 0.31 - 1.50, p-value 0.34). The odds of MRSA carriage was 3.09 times higher in child care employees than unexposed adults after adjusting for a history of cigarette smoking (95% CI 1.04 - 9.17, p-value 0.042). Colonization rates of all S. aureus and MRSA in children were 19.8% and 1.23%, respectively. S. aureus and MRSA were isolated from 9.80% and 0.90% of surfaces. Washing children's hands upon arrival had a protective effect among employees (adjusted OR 0.17, 95% CI 0.095 - 0.32, p < 0.0001). Molecular characterization suggested transmission of S. aureus among children, employees, and environmental surfaces. While the overall prevalence of MRSA is low at child care facilities, employees may be at increased risk of carrying this organism.
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Berthelsen, Donna. "An ecology of centre-based child care." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1997. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36555/6/36555_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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The studies in the thesis were derived from a program of research focused on centre-based child care in Australia. The studies constituted an ecological analysis as they examined proximal and distal factors which have the potential to affect children's developmental opportunities (Bronfenbrenner, 1979). The project was conducted in thirty-two child care centres located in south-east Queensland. Participants in the research included staff members at the centres, families using the centres and their children. The first study described the personal and professional characteristics of one hundred and forty-four child care workers, as well as their job satisfaction and job
commitment. Factors impinging on the stability of care afforded to children were examined, specifically child care workers' intentions to leave their current position and actual staff turnover at a twelve month follow-up. This is an ecosystem analysis (Bronfenbrenner & Crouter, 1983), as it examined the world of work for carers; a setting not directly involving the developing child, but which has
implications for children's experiences. Staff job satisfaction was focused on working with children and other adults, including parents and colleagues. Involvement with children was reported as being the most rewarding aspect of the work. This intrinsic satisfaction was enough to sustain caregivers' efforts to maintain their employment in child care programs. It was found that, while improving working conditions may help to reduce turnover, it is likely that
moderate turnover rates will remain as child care staff work in relatively small centres and they leave in order to improve career prospects. Departure from a child care job appeared to be as much about improving career opportunities or changing personal circumstances, as it was about poor wages and working conditions. In the second study, factors that influence maternal satisfaction with child care
arrangements were examined. The focus included examination of the nature and qualities of parental interaction with staff. This was a mesosystem analysis
(Bronfenbrenner & Crouter, 1983), as it considered the links between family and child care settings. Two hundred and twenty-two questionnaires were returned from mothers whose children were enrolled in the participating centres. It was found that maternal satisfaction with child care encompassed the domains of child-centred and parent-centred satisfaction. The nature and range of responses in the quantitative and qualitative data indicated that these parents were genuinely satisfied with their children's care. In the prediction of maternal satisfaction with
child care, single parents, mothers with high role satisfaction, and mothers who were satisfied with the frequency of staff contact and degree of supportive
communication had higher levels of satisfaction with their child care arrangements. The third study described the structural and process variations within child care programs and examined program differences for compliance with regulations and differences by profit status of the centre, as a microsystem analysis (Bronfenbrenner, 1979). Observations were made in eighty-three programs which
served children from two to five years. The results of the study affirmed beliefs that nonprofit centres are superior in the quality of care provided, although this was not to a level which meant that the care in for-profit centres was inadequate. Regulation of structural features of child care programs, per se, did not guarantee higher quality child care as measured by global or process indicators.
The final study represented an integration of a range of influences in child care and family settings which may impact on development. Features of child care programs which predict children's social and cognitive development, while taking into account child and family characteristics, were identified. Results were consistent with other research findings which show that child and family
characteristics and child care quality predict children's development. Child care quality was more important to the prediction of social development, while family
factors appeared to be more predictive of cognitive/language development. An influential variable predictive of development was the period of time which the
child had been in the centre. This highlighted the importance of the stability of child care arrangements. Child care quality features which had most influence
were global ratings of the qualities of the program environment. However, results need to be interpreted cautiously as the explained variance in the predictive models developed was low. The results of these studies are discussed in terms of the implications for practice and future research. Considerations for an expanded view of ecological approaches to child care research are outlined. Issues discussed include the need to generate child care research which is relevant to social policy development, the
implications of market driven policies for child care services, professionalism and professionalisation of child care work, and the need to reconceptualise child care
research when the goal is to develop greater theoretical understanding about child care environments and developmental processes.
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Herrmann, Ivana [Verfasser], Manfred [Akademischer Betreuer] Schmitt, and Gisela [Akademischer Betreuer] Kammermeyer. "Effects of child care workers' personality on process quality in early child care / Ivana Herrmann ; Manfred Schmitt, Gisela Kammermeyer." Landau : Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1219905534/34.
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Abbott-Egnor, Wendy. "Child Sexual Abuse and Prenatal Care: Understanding Screening, Modifications, and Proper Care." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5297.
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Research has shown that 1 in 9 women in prenatal care have a history of childhood sexual abuse. Pregnant women with a history of childhood sexual abuse are at increased risk of depression, somatization, preterm contractions, posttraumatic stress symptomology, and re-traumatization. The purpose of this study was to bridge the gap in literature between research and practice. Data was collected from practitioners regarding the care and treatment of pregnant women with a childhood sexual abuse history. It was hypothesized that screening practices and modification to care and treatment based on practitioner knowledge of prior sex abuse history will vary by provider type and provider title. A quantitative, online-based survey design was used to gather data from prenatal and birthing practitioners regarding their treatment of female patients who have a history of childhood sexual abuse. Data was analyzed via multiple regression analysis. The data analysis did not lead to any significant results and therefore was unable to support any findings regarding the research questions and hypotheses. The results of this study can be used to encourage practitioners to seek education regarding childhood sexual abuse and its effects on the health and wellbeing of pregnant women. Further, this study brings awareness to the importance of screening for childhood sexual abuse and modifying care during pregnancy and childbirth.
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Bacon, Johanna. "An exploration of 'child voice' and its use in care planning : an ethnographic study with a looked after child." Thesis, University of Chester, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/617866.
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This thesis uses an ethnographic study to interrogate the policy discourse of capturing ‘child voice’ specifically in relation to a ‘looked after’ child. In recent years, attempts have been made to involve children who are ‘looked after’ in discussions and decisions about their care arrangements to ensure that their voice is heard. To ensure this happens, children ‘in care’ are asked about their care placement regularly as part of the care planning review process and their views are incorporated into decisions about their care plan. This study focuses on the lived experiences of a seven-year old female child, who I have referred to as ‘Keeva’, who is ‘in care’ under a Kinship Care arrangement. Over a period of a year, I was based in Keeva’s home one afternoon a week to gain insights about her lived experience as a ‘looked after’ child and how she represented herself. I also observed three care planning review meetings to see how her voice was captured by those charged with her care and how she was represented. I relate Keeva’s experience through seven narrative episodes to capture the rich complexity of the social world she inhabits. I explore aspects of her home and family, her interactions with others and her experience of exploring physical spaces both inside and outside the home. I suggest that these experiences underpin her sense of self and how she relates to others. Drawing on the ideas of Bourdieu, I suggest these experiences and her sense of place in the social order write themselves ‘onto her’ through her habitus and dispositions. Using a Foucauldian lens, I problematise the notion of voice as I contest that the child I observed engaged fully in the statutory processes that surround her. I suggest Keeva, a child who is ‘looked after’, will neither have nor feel she has the agentive properties to influence the care planning process. Instead, as her voice is irrevocably bound up in a bureaucratic process that is uncritically accepted as representative of her, she is obscured as a consequence. I also examine the multivocity in representations of Keeva highlighting the competing discourses of safeguarding, child protection and the ’rights-based’ agenda. I conclude that Keeva was not well represented in care planning reviews and had very little influence in decision-making about her care plan. Despite believing the opposite, those charged with her care failed to hear her or take note of what she said. Furthermore, there was an absence of criticality in representations of Keeva allowing Keeva to be constructed by those professionals involved with her care, in an unchallenged way. As a consequence she was silenced and less visible than the process itself.
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Miller, Ellaine Kimbrough Bailey Abell Ellen Elizabeth. "Predictors of quality caregiving in the ""Family Child Care Partnerships"" home visitation program." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1267.
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Ma, Kwong-cho. "Unattended child : an area of neglect in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22054467.
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Kim, Jung-Eun. "The Impact Of Child Care Center Partnerships with Head Start Agencies on Parents' Satisfaction with Child Care and Early Education." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1333497812.
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Vang, Sao. "A Phenomenological Study of the Perceptions of Hmong Licensed Family Child Care Providers on Process Features of Child Care Quality." Thesis, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10283812.
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This study used a phenomenological research design to investigate how process features of child care quality are experienced in Hmong licensed family child care settings. Interviewing with open-ended questions was relied on as the data collection method. The results included eight major themes: playtime and learning activities are structured to promote individual child’s cognitive and physical development; the child care program is founded on licensing standards of health, safety, and well-being; child care provider uses child-centered interactions in their involvement with the children; child care provider uses positive behavioral guidance in shaping children’s behaviors; fostering a bi-cultural identity in Hmong children through different approaches; the relationships between the child care providers and children are strengthened by a kinship-based-relationship and a display of affection/love and care; feeding practice is adjusted to meet the needs of each child; and the child care provider seeks support to improve his/her child care practice. The findings from this study revealed that as Hmong, the child care providers appear to perceive themselves as a bridge that connects to the next generation, and it is their moral responsibility to instill a strong foundation in cultural identity, while providing the necessary academic preparations in the Hmong children in order for those children to be a bridge for another Hmong generation. The success of bridging from one generation to another will ensure the preservation of the Hmong culture, as well as the future success of the Hmong. These results can have important implications for early childhood professionals and organizations, as well as for the Hmong community.
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Williams, Melissa Lynn. "A Comparative Analysis of Meals Offered at Child Care Centers by Participation in a Child and Adult Care Food Program." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2774.
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Nearly 70% of preschool children in the United States are enrolled in child care facilities. This means that they eat many meals away from their homes. Despite government support for childhood nutrition through the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), research that measures the nutritional value of meals served in child care facilities has been lacking. The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if there are differences in the calories and nutritional value of lunch meals offered to preschool children in facilities that participate in CACFP and in facilities that do not participate in CACFP. Ajzen's theory of planned behavior formed the theoretical foundation for this study. Two research questions addressed the nutrient and caloric content of lunches served in CACFP and non-CACFP facilities. An ex post facto quasi experimental design was used to compare 598 meals from existing monthly menus from a random sample of 30 child care facilities located in a state in the Southwestern United States. Using a MANOVA test, significantly greater amounts of proteins, fats, and calories were found in meals served by non-CACFP facilities. A comparison of actual menu items suggested that greater numbers of fatty foods were present in menus served at non-CACFP facilities. These results support literature that found childhood illnesses, like obesity and malnutrition, may stem from high-calorie meals that lack adequate nutrients. This study may contribute to positive social change by supporting nutrition oversight, such as that provided by the CACFP program; encouraging tighter state and local nutritional guidelines in child care; and focusing attention on the importance of everyday nutrition for all children attending child care facilities.
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Dunning, Debra. "Seamless service: Collaboration and partnership of a non-publicly funded child care organization located within a site with multiple publicly-funded agencies." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1095696710.
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Hagan, Teresa. "Under-utilisation of maternal and child health care." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 1988. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/3084/.
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The central aim of this study is to identify and describe the experiences of first time mothers who are underusers of child care clinics. An attempt is made to counterbalance the tendency of researchers in this area to be judgmental of underusers who "neglect" their children, and their own health care needs, -by reporting the mothers' views of the child health services in their own terms. Underusers within a certain Health Authority area were identified using a purposely developed Index of Uptake. The achieved sample of predominantly working class mothers constituted a group of people who are particularly difficult to research. It is believed that success in locating and eliciting evidence from this group was in itself an important contribution to the research literature. In depth interviews were undertaken, and the data analysed in two ways; (1) A Subsample, made up of those having made least use of the services available to them, was analysed interpretively to provide detailed material of an idiographic kind on the lifeworld of the person and the place of medical care within it; (2) All interviews were subjected to content analysis to provide a more general picture of mothers' experiences of health care provision. The main findings include the following; (1) The particular population studied had a generally low level of visage as assessed by the index, but use of specifically medical provision was greater. A process of rational decision making is implicated. (2) Accounts of underusers' experiences highlight as a central theme the mothers' vulnerability to personal undermining by many aspects of health care provision. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the approach which health care providers adopt towards'underusers, and argues that there must be an explicit recognition of the point of view of the clients if the services are to reach this deprived segment of the community. Such recognition is rarely found in research or comment on the problem of underusage. In fact apparently irrational and blameworthy behaviour by underusers can be. rendered explicable when considered in the light of the individuals' perceptions and experiences, and this leads to a serious questioning of the utility and appropriateness of the negative judgements made of them.
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Brown, Eric B. F. "Women, employment, and child care in Washington State." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71372.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH
Bibliography: leaves 41-52.
by Eric B.F. Brown.
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Ruch, Gillian Margaret. "Reflective practice in contemporary child care social work." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2004. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/383884/.
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In recent years there has been a steady increase in risk-averse, bureaucratic responses to the uncertainty, ambiguity and risk inherent in contemporary child care social work. This thesis argues that for these conditions to be effectively addressed professional responses are required that challenge the domination of ineffective bureaucratic approaches, which have as their primary objective the elimination of uncertainty and risk. The emergence of relationship-based practice is an approach to practice which ofkrs this possibility. However, the development of relationship-based practice is dependent on practitioners and managers re-conceptualising their understanding of human behaviours - their own as well as those of the children and families they work with - and expanding the knowledges informing their practice. In essence, the development of relationship-based approaches to practice is contingent on social workers becoming accomplished reflective practitioners. Within the literature reflective practice is recognised as complex and there is a paucity of empirical evidence relating to social work practitioners' understandings and experiences of it. This research endeavours to contribute towards an enhanced understanding of the nature of reflective practice and the conditions which facilitate its development. The research findings, generated from ethnographic case studies of two family support teams, suggest that the potential for reflective practice is greater in work contexts which afford containing, reflective spaces in which practitioners have the opportunity to think, feel and talk about their work. Team structures and practices and team managers are identified as pivotal in determining the existence and ef&ctiveness of these reflective, containing spaces. The thesis concludes by outlining a model of containing, reflective spaces and with a call for such spaces to be encouraged as an integral and essential feature of contemporary child care social work practice.
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Smith, Allison Jayne. "Child care workers and HIV infected/affected children." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11167.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-77).The objectives of this study are to explore stressors and challenges faced by child care workers working with HIV infected/affected children, their causes, what support is available to them and, finally, current and recommended coping strategies. The study explored the perceptions of 8 child care workers through 2 focus groups using a semi-structured interview schedule as the data collection tool. The findings reveal that the primary challenge experienced is working with traumatised children and working for long hours away from their children, who are often at home alone. It was also found that they not fear infection when working with HIV infected children. The primary recommendation was that child care workers receive regular counselling and that day care centres are established in low income areas to care for their own children.
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Armga, Carol Joan. "Demographic and Professional Dimensions of Child Care Proviers." DigitalCommons@USU, 1987. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2351.
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The purpose of this investigation was to develop a demographic profile of current child care providers in 3 selected Western states. Further, this study sought to assess dimensions of professionally in the day to day activities of child care workers.
Utilizing a mailed questionnaire, 226 child care providers in Salt Lake City, Utah; Eugene, Oregon; and Boise, Idaho were surveyed for information on demographics and professional dimensions. Results suggest that the demographic profile created by a cross-sectional sample of child care providers differs markedly from a profile created by a sample based on professional affiliation. Statistical analyses suggest that education significantly effects the professional dimension of knowledge. The data further indicate that the interaction of education and length of employment as a care giver significantly effects the dimension of orientation to the community.
The findings are discussed in relation to the professional status of child care. It was suggested that child care has not yet met the requirements of becoming a profession. Recommendations for enhancing professional status are given.
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KENT, TAMBRA JEAN. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILD CARE ISSUES AND SUCCESSFUL EMPLOYMENT FOR LOW INCOME PARENTS." OpenSIUC, 2008. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/531.
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AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Tambra J. Kent, for the Master of Science degree in the field of Education in Workforce Education and Development, presented on November 3, 2008, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILD CARE ISSUES AND SUCCESSFUL EMPLOYMENT FOR LOW INCOME PARENTS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Cynthia Sims This mixed method study was considered and carried out to determine the relationship between child care issues and successful employment for low income parents. The study specifically sought to determine if accessibility to affordable and quality child care are barriers to employment for low income working parents who are recipients of the Illinois Child Care Assistance Program and who live in Williamson County, Illinois. There were a total of 117 respondents who participated in the study. A questionnaire was mailed to the study population and used to collect data for the study. Findings revealed that accessibility to affordable and quality child care was not a barrier for the respondents. An inference made regarding these findings is that because these respondents are recipients of the Illinois Child Care Assistance Program and their child care is subsidized, they do not have a barrier when accessing affordable and quality child care. Subsidizing child care for low income working parents provides them with the choice of selecting a quality child care provider.
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Philion-Hunter, Sophia Lynne. "Child care subsidies and child development : how four mothers story their experiences of their child(ren)'s development." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42238.
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This study’s purpose was to allow space for the voice of mothers in the realm of child care subsidy and child development research. Four Canadian mothers storied their experiences of their child(ren)’s development during a time in which they lacked child care subsidies. Each participant participated in a semi-structured interview designed to invoke narratives relating to their experience of their child(ren)’s development. Though each of the participants’ stories was analyzed individually, a cross-sectional analysis revealed common themes which spanned across each of their stories. These themes included a desire for a community, a sense of struggle, feelings of guilt, and changes. The mothers shared, through their narratives, that each perceived lack of child care subsidies as negatively affecting their child (ren)’s development. Implications of the study’s findings on social work practice at various levels of intervention were discussed, as well as recommendations for future research inquiries.
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Eddy, Annette Kari. "Frequency and Perception of Mathematics Activities in Family Child Care and Parent-Child Routines." DigitalCommons@USU, 1997. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2567.
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The study examined the frequency of preschool mathematics activities at home and in the family child care setting. Provider perception and parent perception of the activities were also surveyed. Twenty-one family child care providers, 38 parents, and 42 preschool children participated in the study. Providers and parents participated in a telephone interview in which they completed either the Day Care Activities Checklist (DAC) or the Parent/Child Activities Checklist (PCAC). Research assistants administered the TEMA-2, a mathematical assessment suitable for preschool children, to the children in the study.
Family child care providers in this study reported engaging in mathematics activities statistically significantly more frequently than did parents. Providers offered mathematics activities about once or twice during the week while parents offered these activities less frequently. Three mathematics activities (provided help in saying numbers past 10, did simple addition with props, and assisted the children in writing numbers) yielded statistically significant differences in weekly frequency. However, for six of the activities there were no statistically significant differences in presentation. The most frequently occurring response for mathematics activities for both groups was "Did not occur this week."
Parents and providers could discriminate mathematics activities from other activities with about the same accuracy. Chi-square tests did not result in a statistically significant discrepancy in the ability of providers and parents to discriminate either the total mathematics activities or individual activities on the DAC and PCAC. The total frequency of mathematics activities with the TEMA-2 Mathematics Quotient MQ for either the parent or provider group did not result in a statistically significant correlation. These two variables resulted in a negative correlation for the provider group but not the parent group. More experts in this study rated the reading or other-play activities as developmentally appropriate when compared to mathematics activities.
Providers in this study reported offering more mathematics activities than parents. This difference was statistically significant. Both groups discriminated mathematics activities from other play activities with about the same accuracy. The frequency of mathematics activities as reported on the DAC or the PCAC when correlated with TEMA-2 MQ scores for either the provider or parent group was not statistically significant. More experts in this study rated the reading or other-play activities as developmentally appropriate when compared to mathematics activities. The information gained from this research project will be beneficial in designing and implementing mathematics resources that are suitable for use for preschool children in the home and the family child care setting.
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Fedewa, Lauren Elizabeth. "Between Extermination and Child-Rearing: The Foreign Child-Care Facilities of Volkswagen and Velpke." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2018. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/946.
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During World War Two, approximately 400 to 450 Ausländerkinder-Pflegestätten, or foreign child-care facilities, were established across the German Reich as collection centers for the infants born to Polish and Soviet civilian laborers employed in the German war economy. My thesis examines two such foreign child-care facilities, the Volkswagen and Velpke children’s homes, where over 450 Polish and Soviet infants perished. Three themes provide the framework for an analysis of these two facilities: the conflict between two of the main goals of the Third Reich—racial cleansing and the exploitation of forced labor; the question of whether the establishment of the facilities and treatment of the children depended on orders from upper-level or local-level authorities; and the issue of whether the children’s deaths stemmed from intent to cause their deaths or indifference toward their fate. This thesis addresses the following questions: In terms of racial ideology and economic pragmatism, was one factor more significant in the establishment and use of the Volkswagen and Velpke children’s homes? Who, among upper-level and lower-level Nazi officials, ordinary Germans, medical professionals, and factory executives, was responsible for the children’s deaths? Were the children’s deaths intentional? What do these two facilities tell us about the other foreign child-care facilities that existed across the Third Reich? The research for this thesis draws upon two British war crimes trials held in Braunschweig and Helmstedt, Germany in 1946, the “Velpke Baby Home Case” and the “Rühen Baby Farm Case,” as well as records from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Washington, DC, the National Archives at College Park in College Park, MD, and digital records from the International Tracing Service Archives.
Ultimately, this thesis highlights the connections between the three conflicting—and often opposing—themes. First, the trial records revealed that both facilities were exclusively established, managed, and operated by local-level officials and personnel. Second, upper-level Nazi authorities deemed alleged racial enemies a threat to the German “master race,” and were intent on enforcing a racial hierarchy in the German Reich; however, the local-level officials and staff responsible for these two children’s homes were far more concerned with maintaining productivity from the Polish and Soviet workforce, remaining indifferent toward the fate of the children at the homes. Third, while both the need for economic efficiency from workers and the belief in Nazi racial ideology influenced the establishment, management, and operation of the Volkswagen and Velpke children’s homes, there is minimal evidence that local authorities and personnel prioritized racial ideology over economics. Since both facilities were controlled locally, this thesis reveals that rather than putting racial ideological into practice and intentionally killing the children, local officials prioritized economic production. This left the fate of the children somewhere between extermination and child-rearing—between being left to die, murdered, or raised.
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Garzone, Pamela. "An investigation of gender differences in judgements about care taking /." View abstract, 2000. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1585.html.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2000.Thesis advisor: Carol Shaw-Austad. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts [in the Department of Psychology]." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 29-32).
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Stewart, Latonia A. "An exploration of characteristics, child development knowledge, sources of information, and training needs of family home providers /." View online, 1993. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131396959.pdf.
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Jones, Cathy R. "Developing a West Virginia child care director's credential identifying the knowledge, skills, and issues /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2000. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1399.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2000.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 165 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-149).
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Cutler, Jared. "An Investigation of the Impact of Chld Care Quality on Child Outcomes Using Structural Equation Modeling." DigitalCommons@USU, 2004. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6205.
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The quality of a child care setting is believed by many child care researchers to have an impact on the development of children in child care. While a considerable amount of research has been done regarding the impact of child care quality on child outcomes, an examination of literature reviews on the topic reveals that there is a lack of consensus in the field on the question of whether child care quality has a substantial impact on children's development.
The present study assessed the impact child care quality has on child outcomes. A dataset from the NICHD Early Child Care Study involving 878 subjects was used. Analyses utilizing structural equation modeling indicated that child care quality has a substantial impact on children's development, even when the influence of demographic and family variables is taken into account.
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Smith, Jennifer Ann. "An explorative study of child and youth care workers experiences of "lifespace therapeutic care"." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=init_4931_1178701317.
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The goal of this research was to explore and describe child and youth care workers lived experiences of life space therapeutic care in a residential setting. Life space refers to the daily living environment, context and situation of children.
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Dwyer, Michelle Margaret. "Child care, who cares? : a critique of child care in Canada." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10602.
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Today in Canada, child care is not perceived by the government, nor its citizenry,
as a public good. Despite numerous reports from economic, health, social and
psychological experts, Canadians remain complacent about the inadequate child care
provisions in our country. As a society, we do not demand, or even anticipate, the public
provision of universal, affordable, accessible child care. Instead, Canadians consider the
care of children to be a predominantly private issue; unworthy of significant government
intervention or assistance. Consequently, parents and children must improvise within a
privatized, ad hoc, market-oriented patchwork of individualized child care arrangements.
While it is true that certain "special" cases are acknowledged to deserve the
government's support, - for example Aboriginal children and children with special needs,
as well as the children of "welfare moms" - their exceptional status serves to reinforce the
notion that the care of children is primarily a private parental responsibility.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze and critique the current child care system
(or lack thereof) in Canada. In addition, I intend to show that existing child care
arrangements are unsatisfactory not only because of the immediate consequences for
parents, children, and child care workers, but because of the way in which the privatized
purchasing of child care reinforces other systemic shortcomings in our patriarchal,
racialized, capitalist society. I will argue that current attitudes toward child care in
Canada, as part of a patriarchal capitalist and racialized paradigm, rely on and perpetuate
detrimental notions of class, gender and race, to the disadvantage of all citizens. Finally,
I will discuss the possibilities for meaningful reform of the Canadian approach to child
care.