Early childhood care: relations with family characteristics and preferred care characteristics |
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| Authors: | Diane M Early Margaret R Burchinal |
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| Institution: | 1. Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box #8040, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8040, USA;1. Department of Economics and Business Studies, University of Genova, Italy;2. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy;1. University of Macau, China;2. FPG Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA;1. UNICEF, 3 UN Plaza, New York, NY, USA;2. Fraser Mustard Institute for Human Development, University of Toronto, ON, Canada;3. Departments of Physiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Medicine, University of Toronto, ON, Canada;4. Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA;5. Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan;6. Center for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada;7. Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, CT, USA;8. Yale Child Study Centre, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, CT, USA;9. Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;10. Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;11. School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;12. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, and Department of Pediatrics, Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada;13. Institute of Developmental Sciences and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Southampton and University Hospital Southampton, UK;14. Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA;15. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA;p. New York University Steinhardt, New York, NY, USA;q. Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St Louis, MO, USA |
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| Abstract: | Using data from the National Household Education Survey of 1995, this paper links family income, ethnicity, and child’s age to child care characteristics such as type of setting, hours spent in nonparental care, and number of care arrangements. Findings indicate that children from families with incomes that are at least twice the poverty threshold are more likely than other children to be in nonparental care and generally spend more hours in nonparental care. Ethnicity, not poverty, is related to use of relative-care; Black infants and toddlers are more likely to be in relative-care than White or Hispanic infants and toddlers, regardless of poverty status. Few income, ethnicity, or age differences emerged in analyses of characteristics parents prefer in the selection of type of care. The type of care a family uses is related to the extent to which the family values a setting that will care for sick children and values having a care provider with training. |
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