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Resilience and Risk at the Intersection of Immigration and Child Well-Being: Research Insights from the Young Scholars Program
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Rojas-Flores, Lisseth; Vaughn, Jennifer Medina – Foundation for Child Development, 2019
For more than a decade, the Foundation for Child Development, through the Young Scholars Program (YSP), funded studies about the early education, health, and well-being of children from low-income, immigrant families. Through YSP, the Foundation aimed to fill a gap in policy and practice-relevant research on young immigrant children. It invested…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), At Risk Persons, Child Welfare, Hispanic Americans
Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children
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Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Russell Sage Foundation, 2011
There are now nearly four million children born in the United States who have undocumented immigrant parents. In the current debates around immigration reform, policymakers often view immigrants as an economic or labor market problem to be solved, but the issue has a very real human dimension. Immigrant parents without legal status are raising…
Descriptors: Community Services, Low Income, Labor Legislation, Labor Market
Who Gets What from Government? Distributional Consequences of Child-Care Assistance Policies
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Durfee, Alesha; Meyers, Marcia K. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006
Given the fragmented structure of child-care assistance in the United States, it has been difficult to obtain accurate estimates of which families are assisted, through which mechanisms, and at what level. Making use of survey data from New York City, we analyze the distribution of several forms of public child-care assistance. Results suggest…
Descriptors: Child Care, Public Policy, Family Programs, Community Surveys
Building Bridges from Prekindergarten to Infants and Toddlers: A Preliminary Look at Issues in Four States--A Discussion Paper
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Lombardi, Joan; Cohen, Julie; Stebbins, Helene; Lurie-Hurvitz, Erica; Chernoff, Jodi Jacobson; Denton, Kristin; Abbey, Rachel; Ewen, Danielle – ZERO TO THREE, 2004
From the time of conception to the first day of kindergarten, development proceeds at a pace exceeding that of any subsequent stage of life. Relationships and experiences with parents, caregivers, and preschool teachers during these early years "form the foundation and scaffold on which cognitive, linguistic, emotional, social, and moral…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Public Policy, Preschool Education, Infants
Roots of Decline: How Government Policy Has De-Educated Teachers of Young Children
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Bellm, Dan; Whitebook, Marcy – Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, University of California at Berkeley, 2006
The authors of this paper document how federal policy on child care and early education led to a decline in wages and education among staff in early childhood programs. The paper analyzes labor trends for the early care and education workforce over the past 25 years--notably, an overall decrease in educational qualifications, and persistent wage…
Descriptors: Employment, Qualifications, Public Policy, Young Children
"My Life Was Turned Upside Down...": Child Care and Employment among Mothers of Young Children with Disabilities. Working Paper Series, No. 232.
Fink, Dale Borman – 1991
Two surveys, one qualitative and one quantitative, were conducted of the opinions and experiences of New York State parents of children with learning delays and disabilities regarding parental labor force participation, child care options, and preferences in state policies. A total of 141 parents responded to the quantitative survey and 210 to the…
Descriptors: Day Care, Delivery Systems, Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities