Child Care

National Family Caregivers Month: November 2018

The Current Population Survey found in 2014 there were about 4.8 million grandchildren living in the home of their grandparents, up from 3.7 million in 1994

Single Parent Day

According to the Current Population Survey, from 1968 to 2017, the percentage of children living with only one parent rose from 12% to 27%.

Father’s Day: June 19, 2016

The idea of Father's Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.

Who’s Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Spring 2011

Deciding which child care arrangement to use has become an increasingly important family issue as maternal employment has become the norm.

Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2012

This publication is a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

Child Care Arrangements: Spring 2005/Summer 2006

This report shows the number and characteristics of children in different types of child care arrangements in the spring of 2005 and the summer of 2006.

Child Care Cost Estimates in SIPP and CPS ASEC

This paper compares child care cost estimates in SIPP and CPS ASEC.

Father-Provided Child Care among Married Couples

This paper looks at the economic shock of job loss among fathers on the provision of father-provided child care among married couple with an employed wife.

Continuity or Change in Father Provided Child Care

The changing role of fatherhood are all associated with the use of father provided child care while the mother is at work.