This document focuses on parents' perceptions of the availability of family-supportive workplace arrangements; their experiences in balancing paid work and family commitments; and their preferences for changes in the workplace that could help them harmonize work and family life.
"This document is one of a series of research reports based on the 1988 National Child Care Survey which focuses on the relationship between parents' work lives and child care."--Intro, p. 11
Twenty child care facilities were reported licensed by the end of 1939 ( Davies , 1989 ) . By 1942 the federal government had recognized the need to " ... discuss the question of the establishment of Day Nurseries .
The history of child care its legislation and specific child care data are presented for each of the provinces.
Assembling key experts and activists in the area of Canadian child care policy, this book makes an important contribution to understanding how Canada, with its particular institutions, politics, and values, should design a national child ...
This report, one of a series of research reports based on the 1988 National Child Care Survey, focuses on the characteristics of child care in each province.
"The present review provides a description of various Canadian national survey data sets that could be used to examine issues related to child care use.
Section 2 analyzes the purposes and requirements for which ECEC data should be collected, organized, analyzed, and used. This part also discusses the value of indicators and the use of data to support a program of research.
This report sets out a plan to accomplish family policy across Canada through an integrated system of policies at all levels of government that work together to support parents to...
“Workers, Mothers, Reds: Toronto's Postwar Childcare Fight.” Studies in Political Economy 30(Autumn): 115–41. _____. (ed.). 2001. Changing Child Care: Five Decades of Childcare Advocacy and Policy in Canada. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing ...
Summarizes & discusses highlights of studies of day care services in Canada for 1997 and 1998 with regard to the following: numbers of child care spaces by province & territory; sponsorship of child care centres; age groups served by child ...