Family Policies in Quebec and the Rest of Canada: Implications for Fertility, Child-Care, Women’s Paid Work, and Child Development Indicators

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderic Beaujot ◽  
Ching Jiangqin Du ◽  
Zenaida Ravanera
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Family Policies ◽  
Development Indicators

scholarly journals Center-Based Child Care and Differential Improvements in the Child Development Outcomes of Disadvantaged Children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Anne Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Additional Time ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Research finds center-based child care typically benefits children of low socio-economic status (SES) but few studies have examined if it also reduces inequalities in developmental disadvantage. Objective I test if the length of time in center-based care between ages one and three years associates with child development scores at age three years, focusing on the impact for groups of children in the lower tercile of child development scores and in the lower SES tercile. Method Using data from 1,606 children collected in a nationally representative Chilean survey, I apply a value-added approach to measure gains in child development scores between age one and three years that are associated with length of time in center-based child care. Results Disadvantages at age one year were associated with lower child development scores at age three years. No benefits of additional time in center-based care were found for the non-disadvantaged group, but positive associations were found between more time in center-based care and child development outcomes for children with the SES disadvantage only. Center-based care was not associated with child development trajectories of children with lower child development scores at age one year, no matter their SES status. Conclusions There is evidence that Chilean center-based child care reduces SES inequality in child development scores between ages one and three years, but only if children already were not low-scorers at age one year.

Reliving the History of Compensatory Education: Policy Choices, Bureaucracy, and the Politicized Role of Science in the Evolution of Head Start

2012 ◽  
Vol 114 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Barbara Beatty ◽  
Edward Zigler
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Compensatory Education ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Social Welfare Programs ◽  
History Of

In this article, Edward Zigler, interviewed by Barbara Beatty, talks about a turning point in the history of Head Start that reveals how policy choices, bureaucracy, and science came together when he was told to phase out the program in 1970. New to Washington, Zigler learned that President Richard M. Nixon's domestic policy advisor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had put forth the Family Assistance Plan, favored direct support for mothers and families over compensatory preschool education. Zigler saw how both the methodologically flawed 1969 Westinghouse study on the supposed fadeout of Head Start gains and Arthur Jensen's controversial 1969 article on the supposed failure of compensatory education became politicized and influenced arguments about Head Start's future. With President Nixon's veto of the 1971 Child Development Act, Zigler witnessed how competing policies, bureaucracies, and political ideologies could block support for universal child care and comprehensive services for children and families. After many years of consulting to Head Start and research on applied child development, he sees public schools as sites for coordination of social welfare programs that can improve access to high-quality health care, education, child care, and family services, as in his Schools for the 21st Century model.

“The Minor Would Hinder the Mother in Finding Employment:” Child Protection and Women’s Paid Work in Early State Socialist Hungary

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 818-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eszter Varsa
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
Early State ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Residential Care Institutions ◽  
State Socialist

This article discusses the role of child protection and residential care institutions in mediating the tension between women’s productive and reproductive responsibilities in early state socialist Hungary. At a time when increasing numbers of women entered paid work in the framework of catch-up industrialization but the socialization of care work was inadequate, these institutions substituted for missing public child care services. Relying on not only policy documents but more than six hundred children’s case files, including Romani children’s files, from three different locations in Hungary as well as interviews with former children’s home residents and personnel, the article examines the regulatory framework in which child protection institutions and caseworkers operated. It points to the differentiated forms of pressure these institutions exercised on Romani and non-Romani mothers to enter paid work between the late 1940s and the early 1950s from the intersectional perspective of gender and ethnicity. Showing that prejudice against “Gypsies” as work-shy persisted in child protection work across the systemic divide of the late 1940s, the article contributes to scholarship on state socialism and Stalinism that emphasizes the role of historical continuities. At the same time, reflecting on parental invention in using child protection as a form of child care, the article also complicates a simplistic social control approach to residential care institutions in Stalinist Hungary.

scholarly journals CUIDADO DE ENFERMAGEM NA AVENTURA DO DESENVOLVIMENTO INFANTIL: REFLEXÕES SOBRE O LÚDICO NO MUNDO DA CRIANÇA

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiane Cardoso De Paula ◽  
Ana Paula Xavier Ravelli ◽  
Luciana Da Rosa Zinn ◽  
Maria da Graça Corso Da Motta
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Art And Science

Trata-se de uma reflexão sobre o mundo da criança na perspectiva do lúdico no cuidado de enfermagem. O cuidado, enquanto arte e ciência, tem a possibilidade de buscar estratégias diferenciadas para cuidar da criança no seu processo de desenvolvimento; neste sentido, considera-se o cuidar lúdico uma alternativa ao encontro das concepções humanísticas da enfermagem. Inicialmente, faz-se uma reflexão sobre o significado do lúdico na infância. A seguir, aborda-se o mundo da criança e o cuidado de enfermagem no desenvolvimento infantil. Encerra-se com algumas considerações destacando a importância do lúdico no cuidado à criança.NURSING CARE IN THE ADVENTURE OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT: REFLEXIONS ON THE PLAY IN THE CHILD WORLDAbstractThis is a reflexion on the child world in perspective of play in the Nursing Care. The Care as Art and Science has the possibility of searching different strategies to take care of the child in her development process; in this sense one considers the game care as na alternative to the meeting of humanist concepts in Nursing. Initially one makes a reflexion on the meaning of game in childhood. As a follow up one approaches the child world and the Nursing Care in the child development. One ends with some considerations showing up the importance of play in the child care.

scholarly journals mHealth tool to improve community health agent performance for child development: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Peru

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. e028361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Michael Westgard ◽  
Natalia Rivadeneyra ◽  
Patricia Mechael
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Cluster Randomised ◽  
Health And Development ◽  
Randomised Controlled ◽  
The Impact

IntroductionCultivating child health and development creates long-term impact on the well-being of the individual and society. The Amazon of Peru has high levels of many risk factors that are associated with poor child development. The use of ‘community health agents’ (CHAs) has been shown to be a potential solution to improve child development outcomes. Additionally, mobile information and communication technology (ICT) can potentially increase the performance and impact of CHAs. However, there is a knowledge gap in how mobile ICT can be deployed to improve child development in low resource settings.Methods and analysisThe current study will evaluate the implementation and impact of a tablet-based application that intends to improve the performance of CHAs, thus improving the child-rearing practices of caregivers and ultimately child health and development indicators. The CHAs will use the app during their home visits to record child health indicators and present information, images and videos to teach key health messages. The impact will be evaluated through an experimental cluster randomised controlled trial. The clusters will be assigned to the intervention or control group based on a covariate-constrained randomisation method. The impact on child development scores, anaemia and chronic malnutrition will be assessed with an analysis of covariance. The secondary outcomes include knowledge of healthy child-rearing practices by caregivers, performance of CHAs and use of health services. The process evaluation will report on implementation outcomes. The study will be implemented in the Amazon region of Peru with children under 4. The results of the study will provide evidence on the potential of a mHealth tool to improve child health and development indicators in the region.Ethics and disseminationThe study received approval from National Hospital ‘San Bartolome’ Institutional Ethics Committee on 8 November 2018 (IRB Approval #15463–18) and will be disseminated via peer-reviewed publications.Trial registration numberISRCTN43591826.

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