Research Catalog

Title

The costs of children : parenting and democracy in contemporary Europe / edited by David G. Mayes and Mark Thomson.

Publication

Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd., 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Mayes, David G.
• Thomson, Mark.
• Edward Elgar Publishing

Description

287 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The expert contributors provide an assessment of how countries can handle the fair allocation of the costs of childcare. They look at the experience within Europe in recent years and show in particular how these interrelate with the objectives of improving income, employment and social inclusion. The book's conclusion reveals that choice is the key ingredient as families have different views and different degrees of support available from their relatives. Income and social inclusion can provide choice but ironically employment does not always. An employment-based model can sometimes narrow people's choices, particularly for people on low wages. The major concern is that most existing systems effectively discriminate against mothers.

Subject

• Child rearing > Economic aspects > Europe
• Child rearing > Europe > Costs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

System Details (note)

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction : childcare and democracy in the EU / David G. Mayes and Mark Thomson -- 2. Social regimes and gender equality : childcare in the EU / Mark Thomson -- 3. Valuation of children and childcare / Arnlaug Leira -- 4. Childcare politics and the Norwegian fertility 'machine' / Anne Lise Ellingsæter -- 5. A market for childcare services? Private provision and public finance in the Dutch childcare sector / Janneke Plantenga -- 6. The impact of childcare costs for Northern Irish females / Rachel Dennison and Nora Smith -- 7. What stops lone mothers from working? Insights from the UK's Millennium Cohort Study / Shireen Kanji -- 8. The costs of caring for children before and after divorce : contradictory legal messages and their gendered effects / Kirsten Scheiwe -- 9. Out of the frying pan, into the fire : Hungarian parental leave policies from a gender equality perspective / Róza Vajda -- 10. Childcare as intergenerational support / Karoliina Majamaa -- 11. Costs and consequences for carers of vulnerable children in Australia / Marilyn McHugh -- 12. High-qualified women and the gendered division of domestic labour : an exploratory analysis from the field of photonics / Ineke Casier, Alison Woodward, Machteld De Metsenaere and Elke Van den Brandt -- 13. Redistributing the costs of childcare and its democratic implications / David G. Mayes and Mark Thomson.

ISBN

• 9781781002360 (hardback)
• 1781002363 (hardback)
• 9781782544258 (e-book)
• 1782544259 (e-book)

LCCN

^^2012948160

OCLC

817265508

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library