“I Don’t Trust People to Watch My Kids”
“I Don’t Trust People to Watch My Kids”
Mothers ’ Distrust in Child Care Providers
This chapter investigates the arena of child care. The post-reform group described the same inability to trust the quality of child care providers available as the women interviewed before reform. After all, children are highly vulnerable and have few resources with which to defend themselves. To manage the risk of danger to their children, mothers have two options: they can either stay home with their children themselves or find child care providers they trust. Women after reform sometimes felt forced by work mandates to use care providers they did not trust, but they tended to stop these arrangements eventually. Thus, women in both time periods interrupted their labor market participation because of their distrust in their children's care providers.
Keywords: quality child care, child care providers, labor market participation, work mandates
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