Sick Child Care Options
作者:
LandisSuzanneE.,
EarpJoAnne,
期刊:
Women&Health
(Taylor Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 12,
issue 1
页码: 61-77
ISSN:0363-0242
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1300/J013v12n01_05
出版商: Taylor&Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
More than half of all mothers with children under age 6 are in the labor force. Working mothers must take off anywhere from 5.6 days to 28.8 days per employee per year to care for their sick children. In a survey of 134 working mothers with children in day care centers. 70% expressed an interest in sick child care options outside the home. especially a sick room at the child's regular day care center or an infirmary at the parent's workplace. Mothers who chose "out-of home care" were more likely to: be minority (p<0.01); be single parents (p = 0.06); earn less than $10,000 annually (p = 0.03); want their children with temperatures of 100-100.9 F to remain in school until the end of the day (p<0.01). Communities and day care centers serving especially lower income. minority or single-parent working mothers should consider investigating these out-of-home sick child care options; the savings to employers could be $2 to $12 billion per year, not to speak of the personal savings to the mothers themselves
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