User:BeckMarin/Work–family balance in the United States/Bibliography

Bibliography

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• Burger, Kaspar. "A social history of ideas pertaining to childcare in France and in the United States." Journal of Social History 45.4 (2012): 1005-1025. Burger’s work discusses of French and American ideals of welfare and society influenced welfare pertaining to childcare. One of the first key facts I got from this article was that while Head Start is a federal program, its implementation is left up to individual states. Another topic discussed was that of day nurseries and philanthropic childcare. This article was useful for conceptualizing how the United States ended up where it currently is. The comparison to France allowed to see the gaps of politicization more clearly and find other sources.
• Hepburn, Peter. "Parental work schedules and child‐care arrangements in low‐income families." Journal of Marriage and Family 80.5 (2018): 1187-1209. This study looked at how parent’s work schedules affected their choice in childcare, partially among low-income families, distinguishing between single- and two-parent households. The information here mostly confirmed things that I already knew (just from how I grew up), like that families who work irregular hours (not 9-5s) have a harder time finding childcare because it does not fit into the normal business operating hours. This paper helped me understand why informal childcare would require access to funding because even if a family did everything right, if they need childcare at odd hours, their child will miss out developmental simply due to lack of resources, like books or toys.
• Hotz, V. Joseph, and Matthew Wiswall. "Child care and child care policy: existing policies, their effects, and reforms." The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 686.1 (2019): 310-338. Hotz and Wiswall look at recent child care policy and discuss why policies are put in place, or what actually motivates provision. They came to the conclusion that the only things that really motivate childcare provision are cognitive development, maternal employment, and alleviating poverty. Despite these motivations seeming broad, they fail to recognize the middle-income families that are also struggling. This reading contextualized a lot of the gaps in provisioning that are not offended talked about since many people who discuss poverty frame it around the FPL.
• Savage, Sarah. "High-quality early child care: a critical piece of the workforce infrastructure." (2019). This report discusses a lot of the pitfalls with the current subsidy program. There are issues with accessing subsidies, finding a childcare center that works around schedules, and even just finding childcare centers in their area (i.e. childcare deserts). This was useful because it shows why there is a need for nonprofits as there are a lot of gaps that need to be filled.