@article{32c12e8bcd144e4889849a424865094d,
title = "How urban Chinese parents with 14-month-old children talk about nanny care and childrearing ideals",
abstract = "Existing Western literature about childcare reveals parents hire nannies to play the role of surrogate mother, reflecting Western-held assumptions that a mother caring for her child is the optimal arrangement, with nannies hired to fill this void in their absence. Through analysis of semi-structured interviews with 10 urban Chinese families, our study reveals a departure from these assumptions when it comes to middle-class Chinese, who do not hire nannies as proxies for mothers or due to lack of alternative options. Rather, they seek out nanny care to supplement or enhance childcare provided by grandparents or stay-at-home mothers by building multi-caregiver coalitions in which resources and advantages are pooled to improve care quality. This study uses nanny care as a lens to explore these culturally divergent patterns and reveals that, unlike their Western counterparts, Chinese parents do not see exclusive maternal care for children as ideal or sufficient.",
keywords = "China, care quality, childcare, motherhood, nanny",
author = "Cong Zhang and Fong, {Vanessa L.} and Hirokazu Yoshikawa and Niobe Way and Xinyin Chen and Zuhong Lu and Huihua Deng",
note = "Funding Information: Zhang{\textquoteright}s work is supported by The Research Fund of The School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University. Yoshikawa{\textquoteright}s effort on this article was partially supported by a grant from the NYU Abu Dhabi Research Institute to the Global TIES for Children Center at New York University. The authors are grateful for the support provided by the Harvard University China Fund, the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, the New York University Global Office, the New York University Institute of Human Development and Social Change, the Chinese Ministry of Education's Programme for Introducing Talents of Disciplines to Universities (B08024), and the Chinese Ministry of Education's Cultivation Fund for Key Scientific and Technical Innovation Projects (704025). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.",
year = "2020",
month = oct,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1080/13229400.2018.1447983",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "26",
pages = "611--627",
journal = "Journal of Family Studies",
issn = "1322-9400",
publisher = "eContent Management Pty Ltd",
number = "4",
}