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Library: Socio-Economics |
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Families & Economic Self Sufficiency |
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| Publication: National
Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies Date Posted: 4/96 |
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A publication "New Findings on Children, Families, and Economic
Self-Sufficiency" by the National Research Council of the Institute of Medicine
offers summaries of recent research on how quality of child care and, subsidies for child
care impact families move from welfare dependence to self-sufficiency, and on how poverty
and child care affect children's well-being. The report is edited by Deborah Phillips and
Anne Bridgman from the Board on Children and Families. How do transitions into and out of welfare affect children's development? The report summarizes analyses of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, presented by Kristin Moore, which confirms the importance of helping families move out of poverty and shows the negative role of poverty and welfare on children's lives. What role does child care play in Parents' attempts to move toward Self-sufficiency? The role may be greater than we have assumed. Data collected by Marcia Meyers as a part of a longitudinal study of AFDC recipients taking part in the JOBS program in California, (GAIN) program includes interviews with 275 single mothers participating in education and training programs. These AFDC recipients were significantly more likely to drop out of programs when child care programs lacked flexibility in accommodating sick children, when staffing ratios fell below recommended levels, and when mothers questioned whether their children were safe in the child care setting. Do Child Care subsidies help or hinder low income families efforts to work? Studies by S. Hofferth are cited which indicate that working poor families are the least likely of all working groups to receive subsidies to help them purchase child care. How does child care affect children's well-being? The publication cites the Cost Quality and Child Outcomes Study findings that children in higher quality programs displayed greater receptive language ability, premathematics skills, and social skills than those in lower quality classrooms. It also found that variation in quality had a larger impact on children typically at risk than on other children. The publication also offers references, a bibliography, a description of the organizations which make up the Board on Children and Families, and a list of their other publications. The findings it reports are important information to present in public policy debates about welfare reform and block grants at the federal and state level. There is no charge for the publication. Send an e-mail request for a copy to SRelkin@NAS.edu. Include your address and how you heard about the publication. |
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