Doing Masculinities: Exploring Gender and Age in Professionalizing Family Day Care in Taiwan

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-222
Author(s):  
Yin-Zu Chen ◽  
Jing-Yi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Family Day Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Home Work ◽  
Alternative Masculinities ◽  
Child Care Services

This study analyzes how male childminders in different life stages conduct their work and how they approach masculinities in this profession. We interviewed 16 males from three cities in Taiwan. Data analysis identified different masculinity construction mechanisms for men younger than 50 and those older than 60. These men understand childminding differently: While the younger ones embrace professionalization to create a childminding profession that is different from traditional female work, the older ones refuse to recognize child care as an occupation and strive to blur home/work boundaries to define child care services as a family duty or housework. The research suggests that hegemonic masculinity attributes are being introduced to this female-dominated profession, along with age-related sociocultural norms that provide the context for individuals to reconstruct alternative masculinities.

Attitudes of Russian Immigrant and Israeli-Born Women toward Child-Care Services

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 880-882
Author(s):  
Richard E. Isralowitz ◽  
Ismael Abu Saad
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Child Care Providers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Family Day Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Child Care Services

Israel, like most other societies, has a variety of subgroups differentiated by ascribed attitudes or characteristics which are imputed to individuals. These differences may be reflected by attitudes which are evaluative statements concerning objects, people, or events. In this study the attitudes of Israeli women—30 veterans and 30 newly arrived from the Soviet republics—toward family day-care services were examined. A number of significant differences between the study cohorts, such as amount of interaction between parents and child-care providers, were found and have implications for provision of service and absorption of immigrants.

scholarly journals Policy Frameworks and Parental Choice: Using Conjoint Analysis to Understand Parental Decision Making for Child Care

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110223
Author(s):  
Adrienne M. Davidson ◽  
Samantha Burns ◽  
Delaine Hampton ◽  
Linda White ◽  
Michal Perlman
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Latent Profile Analysis ◽  
Profile Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Child Care Providers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Parental Decision Making ◽  
Child Care Services

Many children in Canada and the United States experience poor-quality child care on a regular basis. Under the rubric of “parent choice,” governments continue to permit a variety of licensed care providers (centers and homes) as well as unlicensed home child care providers. Research suggests, however, that parents are not well-informed consumers about child care services, unaware of even the basic characteristics of their child’s care. In this study, we provide findings from a latent profile analysis based on a conjoint survey conducted in Toronto, Canada to better understand the factors that influence parents’ decisions in selecting child care services. Based on responses from over 700 parents, we identify five classes of parents that reflect a range of preferences in selecting child care. However, most groups show a strong preference for licensed early childhood education and care (ECEC) options. Limitations of this study and implications for policy are discussed.

A Comparative Study of Structural and Process Quality in Center-Based and Family-Based Child Care Services

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathalie Bigras ◽  
Caroline Bouchard ◽  
Gilles Cantin ◽  
Liesette Brunson ◽  
Sylvain Coutu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Process Quality ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Child Care Services ◽  
Family Based

A Public Health Perspective on Child Care

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 94 (6) ◽  
pp. 1116-1118
Author(s):  
Kathleen F. Gensheimer
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Child Care Services ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Young Life

A child care provider is the mother of young life. She nourishes the children, brings them up—gives them energy, her resources, her nerve and all the possibilities to come true—when needed or ready. To not pay her a decent wage is undervaluing the care. To over-regulate her can decrease the supply and raise the cost. To under-regulate her can harm the quality. To zone her out of residential neighborhoods does not fit in a society that "values" children. And yet, all these misdeeds are committed state-wide. Nobody is made really and effectively responsible. Yet we all are! That's why the misdeeds can go on and even increase. Collective responsibility is hidden by our ignorance and greed. At present we live in a world out of balance. We work with no support for family and child care needs. We live lives of turmoil because of a system unable to care. We live lives that call for another way of living. Can biotechnologists build a child who requires less nurturing, less loving? or Can we foster conditions that help, rather than hurt, families using child care? It will oblige all of us to assign a new value to families, children and child care. It will oblige us to establish a strong public policy so that children and child care are valued as more than a mere "life style" option.1 On a personal level, as a mother of four young children and as a consumer of child-care services, I can well relate to the issue of child care.

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