Changing Family Needs and Local Childcare Policies

  • Laurent Fraisse
  • Anna Escobedo
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Abstract

In the last 15 years, the need to enhance measures and services in support of families with young children has gained much attention, and has become an explicit European target, in connection with the European Employment Strategy and as a specification of the Lisbon Social Agenda. The increase in coverage of early childcare facilities is considered a privileged area for overcoming social inequalities (Esping-Andersen 2002) and for developing a social investment approach (Jenson 2007; see also Chapter 1), in a context where European societies are facing common changes in family structures that affect the articulation of work and care. Some of these trends are: a higher proportion of mothers of young children in the labor market; a growing share of single-parent households, due to divorce and the diversification of living arrangements; ageing, which generates new intergenerational relations; and new migration flows, involving families with children, but also providing a female care workforce (often low-paid).

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Single Mother Parental Leave Maternal Employment Family Policy Lone Parent 
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