Family Policy and the Organisation of Childcare: Hierarchies of Care Ideals

ISBN-13: 9783319786605 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 329 str.

Borbla Kovcs

Opis

This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements of young children.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: Family Policies and the Making of Childcare Arrangements.- Chapter 2. Researching Families' Childcare Decisions.- Chapter 3. Two-Tiered Romanian Family Policy and Inequality.- Chapter 4. Conceptualising the Making of Young Childrens' Routine Care Arrangements.- Chapter 5. Childcare Arrangements for Babies and Toddlers.- Chapter 6. Childcare Arrangements during the 'Gap Year'.- Chapter 7. Childcare Arrangements for Preschool-age Children.- Chapter 8. Parents' Employment Trajectories: Two Worlds of Work-Care Experiences.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: Theorising Childcare Decisions.

O autorze

Borbála Kovács is a EURIAS research fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark, and Visiting Faculty at the Central European University, Hungary. She has written widely on family policy and its impact on private lives, as well as post-socialist welfare state adaptation.