For love or money: Costs of child care by relatives |
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Authors: | Karen Fox Folk |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Consumer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1300 Linden Drive, 53706 Madison, WI |
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Abstract: | A substantial proportion of employed mothers of young children, especially low-income mothers, use relatives to provide child
care. This study uses data on interhousehold exchange of gifts, loans, and household services from the National Survey of
Families and Households to examine monetary and nonmonetary costs of child care by relatives. Results show that mothers who
use relatives for child care are more likely to give services and to have given gifts or loans to other relatives living outside
the household than mothers using other forms of child care or mothers who are not employed. Monetary payments for child care
by relatives are made more often for full-time than part-time care and less often to grandparents than to other relatives
providing care. Implications for government child care assistance programs are discussed.
Preparation of this paper was supported in part by the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station. The author acknowledges the
helpful comments of Marianne Ferber, Andrea Beller, and Sharon Y. Nickols.
Her research interests include issues relating to women's employment, including child care and house-hold time allocation.
She received her Ph.D. in Family and Consumption Economics from the University of Illinois. Send all correspondence to author. |
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Keywords: | child care employment interhousehold transfers |
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