Negotiated Care: The Experience of Family Day Care Providers

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INDEX Abel, Emily K., 10, 195, 196, 242n.29, 243n.34, 270n.ll, 272n.4 Abuse, 3-4, 268n.34; husbands' concerns about, 123-24; providers' concerns about, 97 Abused and neglected children, 106-8 Act for Better Child Care Services, 7, 241n.22, 265n.5 Ade, William, 179, 269n.2 Advice to mothers and providers, 54, 253n.17, 254n.21 Age of children in family day care, 4, 182. See also Group size and composition Age of family day care providers, 29, 182. See also Demographic characteristics of providers Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 32-33, 56, 158 Allen, Sheila, 13, 243n.40, 244n.41, 245nn. 4, 46, 47, 247nn. 18, 20, 22, 248nn. 24, 27, 28, 262nn. 2, 3, 8, 263n.12 Altruism, 11, 36, 129, 194 Attachment: between provider and child,92-93,185-86;between provider and parents, 60-61, 186. See also Loss; Provider-child relationship ; Provider-mother relationship Autonomy, 11; of family day care providers, 15, 30, 45, 96-98, 201, 225-26; and regulation, 160, 163, 168-70 Baby-sitting: as experience, 34; as description of family day care, 169,191 Belsky, Jay, 235n.1 Blank, Helen, 249n.33, 266n.12 Bonding, 92, 258n.20 Boulton, Mary Georgina, 93-95, 242n.29, 258n.20, 259n.24 Brazelton, T. Berry, 252n.12, 253n.17 "Burnout," 110, 211-13 Bush, George, 7 Caregiving, 9-12 Case studies of providers, 19-27, 28-29,32-33,34-36,38 Child Care Food Program (CCFP), 154, 168, 173 Child care policy, 5-9, 203-8, 219220 , 239n.17; and regulation, 15153 Child care use, 4-5, 49-50 Child care workers, 194 Child Development Associate (CDA),179 Children's Defense Fund, 235n.1, 265n.3, 274n.1, 275n.6 Choice: of children by provider, 106-10; of parents by provider, 49-53; of provider by mother, 4953 ,69-70 Cohen, Susan, 225, 260n.26, 275n.14 Compliance with regulation, 164-70. See also Regulation Congressional Record, 238n.10, 242nn. 25, 26 Corporal punishment, 70,97, 159, 261n.34. See also Discipline Corporate child care, 6, 219 Cost of child care, 7. See also Financial issues "Cultural capital," 183, 184 Demographic characteristics of providers : age, 29; marital status, 2728 ; number of own children, 2829 . See also Family day care providers Dendy, Selma, 253n.16 Dependent Care Tax Credit, 24Dn.21 "Detached attachment," 17, 76-78, 80-81, 100-106, 201 Dill, Bonnie Thornton, 48, 250n.4, 251n.7, 256nn. 39, 43, 259n.23 Disabilities of children, 41 Discipline, 82-84. See also Corporal punishment Divine-Hawkins, Patricia, 236n.4 Division of labor, 113-16, 122-23, 135-36. See also Housework Copyright~Material 302 INDEX Domestic workers, 47-48, 71, 250n.4, 251n.7 Doonesbury, 3 Early Childhood Education and Development Act, 7 Earnings from family day care, 4143 ,156,203-4 Education of providers, 29-30, 155, 182 Educational activities, 83-85, 158, 183-86 Elderly care, 37-38 "Emotional labor," 101-3, 110 Evasion of regulation, 96-97, 15764 . See also Regulation Experience of family day care providers , 34-35, 87-90, 182. See also Training of family day care providers Families of family day care providers . See Provider-family relationship ; Family day care providers Family day care as work: definition, 3; difference from mothering, 95100 ; differences between regulated and unregulated providers, 15557 ; dissatisfactions, 94-95; family help needed, 121-25; fees and income from earnings, 41-43, 156, 203-4; group composition, 40-41; ideological factors, 90-92; loss of privacy, 117-18; motivation for entering occupation, 31-36, 139-42; problems, 43-44, 94-95; professional providers, 182; rewards, 92-94; satisfaction, 43-44, 93-94; vacations, 39; years in job, 43; work schedules, 36-40 Family day care providers: definition , 4; demographic characteristics , 27-29; differences between registered and unregistered providers , 156-57; education, 29-30, 155, 182; family structure, 27-29; former occupation, 30; ideas about good care, 82-84; income, 30; marital status, 27-29; number of own children, 29; social class, 29-30. See also Case studies of providers; Professional providers Family day care standards, for Vermont , 233-34 Family day care systems, 220-23 Federal Interagency Day Care Requirements , 6 "Feeling rule," 100-101 Fees, 41-42, 156 Feminist analyses: of caregiving, 911 , 228n.15; of child care, 5 Ferree, Myra Marx, 124-25, 135, 136, 258n.19, 263n.15, 264nn. 25, 26 "Fictive kin," 148-50 Financial issues, 41-43, 55-56, 6163 , 100, 114-16...