Description - The Afterschool Lives of Children by Deborah Belle
This book is based on research about after-school experiences and dilemmas conducted over a four-year period with employed parents and their children. Drawing on the stories these parents and children told - and often using their actual words - it emphasizes the wide variety of children's after-school arrangements, children's movement over time in and out of different arrangements, and the importance to children of multiple facets of their after-school arrangements, not simply the presence or absence of an adult caretaker. The book also emphasizes that children are not randomly assigned to after-school arrangements. Rather, parents and children struggle to reach optimal solutions to what are often difficult child care dilemmas. To understand these dilemmas, and the diverse strategies that families adopt, one must attend to the individual situations of children as family members understand them. This book was written to contribute to the development of new family and work policies and practices by illuminating the difficulties families face and their consequences for children.
Written for psychologists, sociologists and other social scientists who study families, maternal employment, child care, or child development, it should also be useful for parents, educators, community leaders and public policymakers concerned about the well being of children whose parents are employed.
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