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Family Policy and the Organisation of Childcare :

331978661X

9783319786612

3319786601

9783319786605

Family Policy and the Organisation of Childcare :

[Book]

Hierarchies of Care Ideals.

Cham :

Palgrave Macmillan,

©2018.

1 online resource (339 pages)

6.2 Hierarchies of Care Ideals for Children Two-to-Three Years Old.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Abbreviations; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: Family Policies and the Making of Childcare Arrangements; 1.1 Mothers' Work-Care Decisions: Limitations of a Research Agenda; 1.2 Why Study the Organisation of Routine Childcare; 1.3 Explaining Families' Routine Childcare Arrangements: What We Know and What We Need; 1.4 The Argument of the Book; 1.5 Outline of the Book; References; 2 Researching Families' Childcare Decisions; 2.1 The Choice of Romania; 2.2 The Qualitative Study; 2.2.1 Selection Criteria in Purposeful Sampling.

2.2.2 Research Sites, Research Phases and Recruitment2.2.3 Data Collection; 2.2.4 Strengths and Limitations of the Study; 2.2.5 Stylistic Issues in the Use of Primary Data; 2.3 Other Data Sources; References; 3 Two-Tiered Romanian Family Policy and Inequality; 3.1 Romanian Families in the Romanian Economy; 3.2 Family Policy Instruments for Families with Children Under Three; 3.2.1 Benefits in Cash; 3.2.2 Benefits in Time; 3.2.3 Services; 3.2.4 Changes in Family Policy Provisions for the Youngest Between 2006 and 2015; 3.3 Benefits for Children Older Than Three.

3.3.1 The 'Norm of Twoness' in Romanian Family Policy3.3.2 Benefits in Cash and Time; 3.3.3 Preschool Education; 3.4 Two Worlds of Romanian Family Policy; References; 4 Conceptualising the Making of Young Children's Routine Care Arrangements; 4.1 Childcare Decisions: The Whens, Whos, Wheres and Hows of Routine Childcare Arrangements; 4.2 Care Ideals; 4.2.1 The Maternal Care Ideal; 4.2.2 The Paternal Care Ideal; 4.2.3 The 'Parental' Care Ideal; 4.2.4 The Grandparental Care Ideal; 4.2.5 The Preschool Care Ideal; 4.2.6 The Nanny Care Ideals; 4.2.7 The Nursery Care Ideals.

4.2.8 The Analytical Centrality of Care Ideals4.3 Hierarchies of Care Ideals; 4.4 An Agency-Centred Framework for Explaining Routine Care Arrangements; 4.5 Imagining Childcare: Socialisation, Care Ideals and Constrained Choices; References; 5 Childcare Arrangements for Babies and Toddlers; 5.1 Ideals of Care During the First Two Years; 5.1.1 The Maternal Care Ideal; 5.1.2 The Paternal Care Ideal; 5.1.3 The Parental Care Ideal; 5.1.4 The Grandmaternal Care Ideal; 5.1.5 Hierarchies of Care Ideals for Children Under Two: Children's Age, Parental Leave and Parents' Socio-economic Status.

5.2 Conceptualising Childcare Arrangements5.3 Routine Care Arrangements for Under-Twos; 5.3.1 Separate Parenting; 5.3.2 The Pure Maternal Care Arrangement; 5.3.3 Joint Parenting; 5.3.4 The Intergenerational Care Arrangement; 5.3.5 The Grandparental Play Arrangement; 5.3.6 The Shared Female Arrangement; 5.4 A 'Sheltered Space for Care': The Centrality of Mothers During the First Years; References; 6 Childcare Arrangements During the 'Gap Year'; 6.1 Childcare Transitions Around Age Two: The Role of Informal Employment, Part-Time Work and the Maximisation of Parental Leave.

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This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements of young children. Drawing on interviews with close to a hundred parents from very different walks of life in urban and rural Romania, the book provides a rich account of the care arrangement transitions these parents experience during their children's first five years of life. The influence of family policies emerges as complex and uneven, affecting childcare decisions both directly and indirectly by contributing to the reproduction and legitimation of age-related hierarchies of care ideals. These cultural artefacts, reflective of both longstanding institutional legacies and recent policy innovations between 2006 and 2015, are the prism through which mothers and fathers from diverse backgrounds view and make decisions about their children's care. This unique volume will be of interest and value to students and scholars of childcare, its organisation and family policy, specifically in post-socialist contexts.--

Family Policy and the Organisation of Childcare : Hierarchies of Care Ideals.

9783319786605

Child care services-- Government policy.

Family policy.

Child care services-- Government policy.

Family policy.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Security.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services & Welfare.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- Marriage & Family.

POL-- 019000

POL-- 027000

SOC-- 026010

Kovács, Borbála,1983-

20200823113620.0

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