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Paper Abstract: Social need for day care, options, impact of changing socioeconomics, families & women's roles, govt. & corp. involvement. Paper Introduction: In today's economy American women must work and, in order to ensure the well-being of the country's children, large companies and government must provide childcare (and, sometimes, elder-care) programs to allow working parents to perform their jobs without being forced to neglect their family responsibilities. In the United States today 60 percent of all women and 75 percent of all men are in the workforce. This is a change in the society that has taken place over the last 30 years. Many women no longer have the choice of remaining at home until their children have grown and so parents are forced to find child-care options. Daycare for pre-school children, after-school services for older children, summer programs for older children, and care for elderly dependents of working men and women are often very expensive, good programs are rare, and, in many cases, they Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. elder-care programs to allowworking parents to perform their jobs has taken place over the last years Many women for older children summer programsfor children's development can be harmed bypoor care and health and on family life all theencumbrances and limitations of domestic life Adelson But accounted for in this way not a middle-class trend based on feministideology but a change traditionalists saythe problem is that parents especially But thesefamilies cannot survive without two incomes in the s and there are over millionmarriages per year In marriages and divorces even issue whether the individual woman has any ideological interestsor not Women's Issues Forms of care include satisfied with their present arrangements and in a recentHarris poll million are estimated bythe Children's schools for lessthan percent of the year limited to middle-class families and as much as percent of their salaries Reynolds Working parents' The problem is very great and that the amount of stimulation and affection parents to work andseek care elsewhere at home and those invarious childcare options day-care children show day-care children's intellectualdevelopment is impaired that they engage in activities that The lack of sufficientindividualized attention in young children that do not take these factors into older children a range of activities to difficulty in providing for the needs of had difficulties withtasks like shopping and need of care can range from nearly full-time of care programs neededby working open until p m with homework Others claim that anyform of tax interfere with care given by churches neighbors or grandma employers should play a role in providing child-careassistance to employees and subsidizing the training of care The Familyand Medical Leave Act of a trend that was already underway is significant becausebusinesses had come to in the childcare dilemmamany people according to the economic status suggestions includean increase in the amount of the already-established state-based Child Care Development andBlock Grant the needs of middle-class Americans and Clinton's were also under consideration for improving the trainingand salaries of toward subsidies and or onsitecare has been growing rapidly adequate development and use of human resources decreased absenteeism reduced job turnoverrates and associated costs less employee convenient offering forparents is a high-cost effort that is usually the company's image Sprague Yet such sites are expensive and options and isespecially valuable in providing low-income is an excellent example of this type of approach Its byWork Family Directions a national provider in communities where these companies' subsidizes existing programs that meet standards ofquality and to ABC programs is not limited to as ABC represent a new type of response both government and large companies to providecare opportunities theconsequences Individual companies will suffer from What We Know About Day J Freeing Childcare of Ideology Job Benefits Get personal American Demographics Sep Reynolds com The Policy and News Information Service ensurethe well-being of the country's children large companies and all men are in the workforce This are forced to find child-care options Daycare very expensive good programs are rare and intotrouble and the economic and is the result of feminist ideology thatsupposedly promotes to feminist thinking the numbers of women who work old work almost percent of mothers of year-olds work and the childcare problem inthe U S on year in which parents would like nothing better economic necessity increase of course in many one-parent families As the children of brokenmarriages generally become of households Mergenbagen Thus caring children of pre-school age who were in government programs and a growingnumber of corporate-sponsored nearly as great for the parents of school-age childrenbetween Women's Issues And these children parents must also accommodate planned events such school closings or in poverty by the high cost or unavailability of adequate that outside childcare of any is the central circumstance governing what we become isbound to something most parents know about instinctively it is guilt and stressover the need to leave them in peers apathetic inattentive and unresponsive Adelson areunsupervised after school have no one majority of their time indoors andsitting in of American children spend some or educational components along the linesof Americans constitute another growingsocial problem and many Americans may soon and living in privatehouseholds and more than like eating bathing and dressing Mergenbagen The daily programs where theirneeds are met The question of out many traditionalists who feel that mothers simplyshould not the idea that government bureaucrats and socialworkers can make parents who sacrifice to stay with currentprograms is simply mistaken Americans have to work and respects ranging fromsubsidizing the costs of sometimes most effective when legislationshifts for newparents and various forms of leave for family emergencies some unpaidmaternity leave to employees Mergenbagen interference were on the way to the same conclusions already programs or some form of subsidy Reynolds But government involvement to include infants as well as preschoolers and makeit care Reynolds In the Clintonadministration introduced a billion programs designedprimarily but not exclusively to aid outside childcare and for facilities thatprovide such if the involvement of U S companies in childcare provision business has begun to see that U S competitiveness has Kossek Dass and De Marr At of corporate involvement inchildcare companies' response has been uneven Sprague of servicesince whether they are company-operated investments Theother principal option for businesses is subsidy or prove to be the most workable solution in manycommunities while in some cases exploiting possible sources ofgovernment aid ABC throughout the country American Business Funding isprovided by fees paid the companies' employees to secure proper childcare American Business The childcareproviders thus providing for long-term and immediate needs firms can pay to use problem of childcare for working parents there are not enoughgood options open to workers the economy families and child development problems as well as a Private Sector Online Internet Feb Available http Employer-Sponsored Work and Family Initiatives Human Resource Your Childcare Options HR Focus Apr In today's economy American women must without being forced to neglect theirfamily responsibilities In nolonger have the choice of remaining at older children and care for elderly dependents of children who are left on Some social conservatives claim that the rise in while therise in the number of According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics more in the way the American economy works As Dionne mothers are working too muchoutside the home there and employers are seldominterested in flexible work arrangement that would But the annual divorce rate is in this era ofgender equity women remain more involved than As of the Children's Defense children placed with relatives children placed only percent of Americans feel that the present childcaresystem works Defense Fund to be home In addition to the long as theGeneral Accounting Office found dissatisfaction with childcare ranges from the factthat facilities are inadequate as Adelsonpoints out this shift in children get in theirfirst three years has a lot to for their young children or in many cases parents high levels ofaggressiveness and antisocial not dramatically but enough to achievestatistical are healthy and stimulating Such and the lack of supervision inolder children may account The programs thatare needed therefore are those thatinvolve physical and mental activity thus providing dependentor semi-dependent elderly relatives In the s over million Americansover household chores while many more had more severedifficulties attendance to the more common daily round of American parents is the source of assistance music arts or sports break for childcare or any Dionne But the assumption that American parents want Mergenbagen An equally large number feelthat providers Reynolds Government involvement in family matters could range from for example required that businesses withmore In for example percent of see the value of the law in favor a legal mandate that requires all employers of the working Americansin need of help For the working money parents be allowed to billion for an Early Learning Fund billion for HeadStart and proposals included increasing tax creditsfor firms that offer childcare providers in order to increase quality and during the s This has occurred becauseof both long-term theoretical includingchildcare for workers has emerged stress related to childcareissues improved morale enhanced recruitment justifiable only in verylarge companies They also tend may require such high levels of fundingthat as employees with access tootherwise pricey high-quality care Sprague Cooperative goal isto tie community demand for childcare to of work-life services thatinvests approximately million per workers live and theresulting gap analysis leads to recommendations for convenience The organization is also heavily involved incurriculum design employees of nationalsponsor companies other community members often to a problemthat never existed before and only for the dependents of American poor productivity anddifficulty in recruiting workers Care Commentary Nov American Business Collaboration for Quality Dependent Care Nation's Cities Weekly Oct Kossek Ellen Ernst Parshotam Dass and Larry Advocates Plan to Push for More Childcare Support HR May Online Internet Feb Available http www policy com governmentmust provide childcare and sometimes is a change inthe society that for pre-school children after-school services in many cases they simply do not exist Young emotional pressures on parents have manyadverse effects on worker productivity a utopianism that envisions a cost-free end to istoo great and the change is too sudden to be percent of mother with children ages areemployed Reynolds This is ideology As Dionne points out while thanto be at home when their children return from school Mergenbagen notes Americans have had morethan million babies per year the daily responsibility of their mothers ratherthan their fathers for the children of working mothers becomes a women's some form of day care efforts But the great majority of workingparents are not the ages of and of whom more than are in the care of vacations Sprague Thesenumbers clearly are not childcare which often accounts for kind is an inadequatereplacement for parental care have a deep effect on future generations Studies havefound oftenoverlooked in the pressing economic need that forces care Dionne Among the differences between children cared for And researchers have found that to oversee their homework assignmentsor ensure front of televisions and video games all of their youth in the careof programs Head Start programs and for find themselves moving fromchild-care problems a quarter of this group types of assistance needed byfamilies with elderly members in who should provide the types work reject such ideas as keeping schools up for what parents should do at homewith children or might around percentof them feel that childcare for workers to regulation of privately-run facilities the responsibility to the shoulders of other parties including carefor elderly family members Mergenbagen But this law largelyreflected Since of course mostbusinesses have met the law's demands This Reynolds Among the options for government involvement is more likely to take otherforms that vary an all-day year-round program Reynolds Other initiative that provided billion for poorer working parents Women'sIssues But government considerations also include care Reynolds In addition block grants to state andlocal governments isnot mandated by the government the trend declined because of the decreasing quality of theworkforce and the practical level while it has become clear that Onsite childcare while probably the most or contracted out to a serviceprovider their success reflects upon a reimbursement programwhich allows employees to choose their preferred provider The American Business Collaboration for Quality DependentCare ABC is a national organization that is managed directly by large corporations ABC assesses demandand supply ABC either begins programs which are managedby Work Family or of its sponsorfirms And access many of the ABCfacilities Initiatives such Itis in the best interests of and the society will suffer declinein the economy Works CitedAdelson Joseph www pewtrusts com pubs misc childcare child cfmDionne E Managers' Institutional Role Human Relations Sep Mergenbagen Paula Women's Issues Women's Lives Policy work and in order to the United States today percent of allwomen and percent of home until their children have grownand so parents working men andwomen are often their own are more likely to get the number ofworking mothers in America middle and upper-middle class mothers who work maybe partially tied than percent of motherswith children under one year notes it is pointless to blame are many two paycheck families earning say or a enable parents to be athome from on The effects of approximately half thatof marriages around million annually and men in the family'soperation childcare elder care and the running Fund estimated that working parentshad million with semi-professional or unlicensed individuals andprofessional care facilities including very well Reynolds The problem is alone after school on a daily basis summer breaks andoccasional illness therefore working percent of poor working mothers arekept inconvenient and over-expensive to thestrong feeling American child-rearing given the fact that howwe are raised do with how their brains develop and whilethis is knowing that their children need them are filled with behavior and a tendency to be in comparisonwith their significance Adelson Older children who children frequently spend the great eventually have very serious effects as the greatmajority that allow maximum interaction withtrained caring childcare workers for both play andschoolwork needs Elderly dependents of working the age of were chronically disabled and needed help with personal-care activities visits to assist withmeals and chores or occasionally placement in a great deal of controversy As Dionne points programs because theysay this perpetuates government-sponsored or regulated childcare initiatives is unfair to toescape caring for their children at home or are satisfied government should also play a role in many actual careprovision to regulation but is than employees offer up to weeks of unpaid leave big businesses over employees offered terms of productivityand morale payoffs and rather than resenting government to providechildcare benefits either onsite poor it is recommended that Head Startprograms be expanded earn while stillreceiving government-subsidized child a Child Care Provider Scholarship Fund all childcare benefits billion in tax credits forworking parents who employ reduceturnover among childcare professionals Reynolds Even considerations and immediate practical needs In the long run American as an important issue for the future ofAmerican business and improved community andpublic relations are all side effects to provide the highest level demand varies they will prove to be unsound efforts involving government employers and independentagencies will probably businesses interest in obtainingsuch care for workers year in various child and elderlycare options projects and programs that will allow for training and in accreditation efforts for operating with subsidiesfrom government or from their own continued innovation from all parties islikely to solve the general workers and this hasbeen increasingly recognized by most Americans If The society will see an increase indysfunctional Financing Child Care in the Beverly De Marr The Dominant Logic of Focus Mar Sprague Peg Weighing issuewk a html elder-care programs to allowworking parents to perform their jobs has taken place over the last years Many women for older children summer programsfor children's development can be harmed bypoor care and health and on family life all theencumbrances and limitations of domestic life Adelson But accounted for in this way not a middle-class trend based on feministideology but a change traditionalists saythe problem is that parents especially But thesefamilies cannot survive without two incomes in the s and there are over millionmarriages per year In marriages and divorces even issue whether the individual woman has any ideological interestsor not Women's Issues Forms of care include satisfied with their present arrangements and in a recentHarris poll million are estimated bythe Children's schools for lessthan percent of the year limited to middle-class families and as much as percent of their salaries Reynolds Working parents' The problem is very great and that the amount of stimulation and affection parents to work andseek care elsewhere at home and those invarious childcare options day-care children show day-care children's intellectualdevelopment is impaired that they engage in activities that The lack of sufficientindividualized attention in young children that do not take these factors into older children a range of activities to difficulty in providing for the needs of had difficulties withtasks like shopping and need of care can range from nearly full-time of care programs neededby working open until p m with homework Others claim that anyform of tax interfere with care given by churches neighbors or grandma employers should play a role in providing child-careassistance to employees and subsidizing the training of care The Familyand Medical Leave Act of a trend that was already underway is significant becausebusinesses had come to in the childcare dilemmamany people according to the economic status suggestions includean increase in the amount of the already-established state-based Child Care Development andBlock Grant the needs of middle-class Americans and Clinton's were also under consideration for improving the trainingand salaries of toward subsidies and or onsitecare has been growing rapidly adequate development and use of human resources decreased absenteeism reduced job turnoverrates and associated costs less employee convenient offering forparents is a high-cost effort that is usually the company's image Sprague Yet such sites are expensive and options and isespecially valuable in providing low-income is an excellent example of this type of approach Its byWork Family Directions a national provider in communities where these companies' subsidizes existing programs that meet standards ofquality and to ABC programs is not limited to as ABC represent a new type of response both government and large companies to providecare opportunities theconsequences Individual companies will suffer from What We Know About Day J Freeing Childcare of Ideology Job Benefits Get personal American Demographics Sep Reynolds com The Policy and News Information Service ensurethe well-being of the country's children large companies and all men are in the workforce This are forced to find child-care options Daycare very expensive good programs are rare and intotrouble and the economic and is the result of feminist ideology thatsupposedly promotes to feminist thinking the numbers of women who work old work almost percent of mothers of year-olds work and the childcare problem inthe U S on year in which parents would like nothing better economic necessity increase of course in many one-parent families As the children of brokenmarriages generally become of households Mergenbagen Thus caring children of pre-school age who were in government programs and a growingnumber of corporate-sponsored nearly as great for the parents of school-age childrenbetween Women's Issues And these children parents must also accommodate planned events such school closings or in poverty by the high cost or unavailability of adequate that outside childcare of any is the central circumstance governing what we become isbound to something most parents know about instinctively it is guilt and stressover the need to leave them in peers apathetic inattentive and unresponsive Adelson areunsupervised after school have no one majority of their time indoors andsitting in of American children spend some or educational components along the linesof Americans constitute another growingsocial problem and many Americans may soon and living in privatehouseholds and more than like eating bathing and dressing Mergenbagen The daily programs where theirneeds are met The question of out many traditionalists who feel that mothers simplyshould not the idea that government bureaucrats and socialworkers can make parents who sacrifice to stay with currentprograms is simply mistaken Americans have to work and respects ranging fromsubsidizing the costs of sometimes most effective when legislationshifts for newparents and various forms of leave for family emergencies some unpaidmaternity leave to employees Mergenbagen interference were on the way to the same conclusions already programs or some form of subsidy Reynolds But government involvement to include infants as well as preschoolers and makeit care Reynolds In the Clintonadministration introduced a billion programs designedprimarily but not exclusively to aid outside childcare and for facilities thatprovide such if the involvement of U S companies in childcare provision business has begun to see that U S competitiveness has Kossek Dass and De Marr At of corporate involvement inchildcare companies' response has been uneven Sprague of servicesince whether they are company-operated investments Theother principal option for businesses is subsidy or prove to be the most workable solution in manycommunities while in some cases exploiting possible sources ofgovernment aid ABC throughout the country American Business Funding isprovided by fees paid the companies' employees to secure proper childcare American Business The childcareproviders thus providing for long-term and immediate needs firms can pay to use problem of childcare for working parents there are not enoughgood options open to workers the economy families and child development problems as well as a Private Sector Online Internet Feb Available http Employer-Sponsored Work and Family Initiatives Human Resource Your Childcare Options HR Focus Apr If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click 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