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Facts In Action
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Facts to Clip and Quote:
National
Child Caregiver Data
Nationally:
- 73%
of infants and toddlers of employed mothers are primarily cared
for by someone other than a parent while their mother is working.
- Of
those 73%, 27% are cared for by relatives; 22% are
in center-based care; 17% are in family child care homes,
and 7% are cared for by nannies or baby sitters.
Source:
Who's
Caring for Our Youngest Children? Child Care Patterns of Infants
and Toddlers, J. Ehrle, G. Adams, and K. Tout, The Urban Institute,
January 2001.
Facts in Action, June 2001
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