Abstract
Huston's chapter (see record 2004-00152-009) is critical to our understanding of the ways that low-income families manage the demands of employment and rearing their children. Women who are trying to meet welfare reform mandates to employment are faced with a harsh set of childcare choices. Specifically, these mothers face a market-based system that is unlikely to adequately meet the needs of their children at the subsidy price that the government is likely to pay. Huston underscores a central theme in work by Edin and Lein (1995), that poor women receive too low a wage to be able to afford the high cost of high-quality care on their own. The implications of this substandard care for children's outcomes are grave indeed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Work-family challenges for low-income parents and their children |
| Editors | A. C. Crouter A. Booth |
| Place of Publication | Mahwah, NJ, US |
| Publisher | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers |
| Pages | 179-190 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0-8058-4600-X (Hardcover); 0-8058-5077-5 (Paperback) |
| State | Published - 2004 |
Keywords
- *Child Care
- *Family Work Relationship
- *Government Policy Making
- *Lower Income Level
- *Welfare Reform
- Employment Status
- Family
- Welfare Services (Government)