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Use of Relative Care by Working Parents


  Author: Kathleen Snyder, Timothy Dore, Sarah Adelman
Publisher: The Urban Institute
Publication: Snapshots of America's Families III, No. 23
Document Date:                  April 2005
Category: Family Relations > Extended Family
Related Categories:
Children > Childcare-Daycare
Parenthood/Childrearing > Nonparental Care
 

This report uses data from the 1999 and 2002 National Surveys of America's Families to examine working parents' use of relative care for children of different ages.  It finds that nearly nine million children are cared for by a relative on a regular basis, and that parents with children under the age of three are most likely to use this form of care.

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