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Stacking the Deck: The Relationship Between Reliable Child Care and Lone Mothers' Attachment to the Labour Force


  Author: Campaign 2000
Publisher: Campaign 2000
Publication:
Document Date:                  May 01, 2001
Category: Family Economics > Stay-at-home Parents
Related Categories:
Children > Child Welfare
Children > Childcare-Daycare
Family Economics > Economic Hardship
Family Economics > Employment/Unemployment
Family Economics > Family Income
Family Economics > Maternal Employment
Family Structure > Single-parent Families
Parenthood/Childrearing > Divorced/Separated Parenting
Parenthood/Childrearing > Single Parenting
Public Policy > Childcare
 

This report presents the findings of interviews conducted with low-income women across Canada regarding the relationship between the accessibility of reliable child care and their ability to enter and remain in the workforce.  The study found that other factors, such as social and emotional support from family and friends, a supportive working environment,  affordable housing, and available transportation also affected their ability to work. 

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