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Caring for Children

Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada

edited by Rachel Langford, Susan Prentice & Patrizia Albanese

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2017
Category
General, Children's Studies, Social Policy

  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774834315
    Publish Date
    Jun 2017
    List Price
    $26.99

  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774834285
    Publish Date
    Jun 2017
    List Price
    $90.00

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774834292
    Publish Date
    Jan 2018
    List Price
    $34.95

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Social inequality. Selective political attention. Insufficient funding and access. Caring for Children provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the crisis in care for Canadian children and their caregivers. The contributors explore the complex issues surrounding caring for children, analyzing the connections between services and programs to reveal how child care, parental leave, informal care, live-in caregiver programs, and child tax benefits affect the well-being of Canadian children and their families. They affirm the necessity of questioning political attitudes and arrangements and ask what social movements can do to promote positive change in approaches to the care of children.

About the authors

Rachel Langford's profile page

Susan Prentice is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba, a member of the Child Care Coalition of Manitoba, and a longtime feminist. She specializes on childcare and her research focuses on family, women’s work, social policy and the state, market forces/privatization, and social movement organizing.

Susan Prentice's profile page

Patrizia Albanese is a professor at Ryerson University and past-president of the Canadian Sociology Association. She is co-author of Youth & Society (2011) and More Than It Seems (2010); author of Children in Canada Today (2016) and Child Poverty in Canada (2010); and co-editor of Sociology (2016). She has done research on child care in Canada and youth in CAF families.

Patrizia Albanese's profile page

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