Sharing the caring responsibility between the private and the public : childcare, parental choice, and inequality
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- Michel Vandenbroeck (UGent) , Wim Van Lancker and Jeroen Janssen
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- It is increasingly recognised that early childhood education and care (ECEC) can contribute to equal opportunities. However, the conditions to realise this potential are far from being generally acquired as access to high-quality ECEC is unequal since children from poor families tend to be less often enrolled in ECEC than their better off peers. An overview of research examining this global phenomenon reveals that this inequality is not so much a matter of parental choice, but rather of structural barriers and therefore of policies. Countries that consider childcare as a public responsibility seem to do better than those that consider childcare as a private commodity.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8743733
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- Vandenbroeck, Michel, et al. “Sharing the Caring Responsibility between the Private and the Public : Childcare, Parental Choice, and Inequality.” The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe, edited by Anna-Maija Castrén et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 361–75, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73306-3_18.
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- Vandenbroeck, M., Van Lancker, W., & Janssen, J. (2021). Sharing the caring responsibility between the private and the public : childcare, parental choice, and inequality. In A.-M. Castrén, V. Česnuitytė, I. Crespi, J.-A. Gauthier, R. Gouveia, C. Martin, … K. Suwada (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of family sociology in Europe (pp. 361–375). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73306-3_18
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- Vandenbroeck, Michel, Wim Van Lancker, and Jeroen Janssen. 2021. “Sharing the Caring Responsibility between the Private and the Public : Childcare, Parental Choice, and Inequality.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe, edited by Anna-Maija Castrén, Vida Česnuitytė, Isabella Crespi, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Rita Gouveia, Claude Martin, Almudena Moreno Mínguez, and Katarzyna Suwada, 361–75. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73306-3_18.
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- Vandenbroeck, Michel, Wim Van Lancker, and Jeroen Janssen. 2021. “Sharing the Caring Responsibility between the Private and the Public : Childcare, Parental Choice, and Inequality.” In The Palgrave Handbook of Family Sociology in Europe, ed by. Anna-Maija Castrén, Vida Česnuitytė, Isabella Crespi, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Rita Gouveia, Claude Martin, Almudena Moreno Mínguez, and Katarzyna Suwada, 361–375. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73306-3_18.
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- 1.Vandenbroeck M, Van Lancker W, Janssen J. Sharing the caring responsibility between the private and the public : childcare, parental choice, and inequality. In: Castrén A-M, Česnuitytė V, Crespi I, Gauthier J-A, Gouveia R, Martin C, et al., editors. The Palgrave handbook of family sociology in Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan; 2021. p. 361–75.
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- [1]M. Vandenbroeck, W. Van Lancker, and J. Janssen, “Sharing the caring responsibility between the private and the public : childcare, parental choice, and inequality,” in The Palgrave handbook of family sociology in Europe, A.-M. Castrén, V. Česnuitytė, I. Crespi, J.-A. Gauthier, R. Gouveia, C. Martin, A. Moreno Mínguez, and K. Suwada, Eds. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 361–375.
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author = {{Vandenbroeck, Michel and Van Lancker, Wim and Janssen, Jeroen}},
booktitle = {{The Palgrave handbook of family sociology in Europe}},
editor = {{Castrén, Anna-Maija and Česnuitytė, Vida and Crespi, Isabella and Gauthier, Jacques-Antoine and Gouveia, Rita and Martin, Claude and Moreno Mínguez, Almudena and Suwada, Katarzyna}},
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pages = {{361--375}},
publisher = {{Palgrave Macmillan}},
title = {{Sharing the caring responsibility between the private and the public : childcare, parental choice, and inequality}},
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year = {{2021}},
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