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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2012.13.12.5738

The Status and Challenges of Child Care Policy  

Rho, Myung-Sook (Dept. of Child Welfare, Jeonju VISION University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.13, no.12, 2012 , pp. 5738-5744 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purposes of this study are to analyze the status of Child Care Policy, to discover the problems faced by child care policy and to provide better Child Care policies to reorient in the future. The following problems have been identified through the Child Care Policy Analysis of: (1) Due to '0 to 2 years' free Child Care, Dual-earner families was difficult to use Child Care facilities. (2) Low-income families with children over 36 months were excluded from receiving Care allowance. Child Care of publicity is difficult to secure. Because children using Child Care facilities use private type Child Care facilities than the national and public Child Care. Policy proposals to provide better Child Care policies are to increase the number of the national and public Child Care, to pay practical parenting allowance, to increase the number of high quality Infant Daycare Centers, to expand Part-time child care services and to support parent education and counseling program.
Keywords
Child Care; Child Care facility; Child Care Policy; Parenting Allowance; Parent Education;
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