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Child care before 6 months of age: A qualitative study of mothers' decisions and feelings about employment and non-maternal care
- Abstract:
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Employment of women while their children are infants has increased in the UK in the last decade. This study of 57 employed mothers of infants less than seven months old examined their retrospective reports of planning child care and their contemporaneous feelings about the child care they were using, based on qualitative interviews. Issues addressed included mothers' reasons for returning to employment at that time, their theoretical preferences among a range of child care types and providers...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- INFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 471-502
- Publication date:
- 2006-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1522-7219
- ISSN:
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1522-7227
- Source identifiers:
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92585
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:92585
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uuid:ae6ceed2-8d14-49b2-8204-f95afd78ba95
- Local pid:
- pubs:92585
- Deposit date:
- 2014-12-26
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- Copyright date:
- 2006
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