@article{ref1,
title="The influence of race/ethnicity on disadvantaged mothers' child care arrangements",
journal="Early childhood research quarterly",
year="2007",
author="Radey, Melissa and Brewster, Karin L.",
volume="22",
number="3",
pages="379-393",
abstract="This study uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study [Reichman, N., Teitler, J., Garfinkel, I., &amp; McLanahan, S. (2001). The fragile families and child wellbeing study: Sample and design. Children and Youth Services Review, 23, 303-326] to describe primary child care arrangements of employed, predominantly low-income mothers of 1-year olds, and to quantify their child care calculus in the post-welfare reform era. The sorting of children across arrangement types differs by mother's race/ethnicity: Hispanic children are most likely to be cared for maternal kin, Black children in organized centers, and White children by their fathers. Multinomial regression reveals that the association between race/ethnicity and arrangement type is largely - but not entirely - accounted for by mothers' socioeconomic, household, job, and cultural characteristics; interaction tests show that the associations between arrangement type and both poverty status and marital status are contingent on race/ethnicity. These findings indicate that disadvantage does not translate into child care arrangements similarly across racial/ethnic groups and child care policy must take into account structural and cultural differences associated with parents' race/ethnicity.<p />",
language="",
issn="0885-2006",
doi="10.1016/j.ecresq.2007.05.004",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2007.05.004"
}