Abstract
Cash assistance and associated programs are a safety net for poor women caring for children with chronic health problems and disabilities. Moreover, children from poor and low-income families have disproportionately high rates of accidents, injuries, activity limitations, disabilities, and chronic health problems. The unpaid carework for children (and others) with chronic health problems that welfare-reliant women do in their own homes could in theory be conceptualized and valued socially as vital public care resource that it is. However, like women’s domestic carework for children generally, welfare-reliant women’s carework for their children with chronic health problems has not been valued as work or as a public care resource. Welfare-reliant women caring for children with serious, chronic health conditions, behavior problems, and disabilities face specific and unique challenges to meeting the mandates of welfare reform. Policymakers must, at the same time, expand available child care and home care services for chronically ill children and develop other programs to support for low-income women.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Child Care and Inequality |
Subtitle of host publication | Rethinking Carework for Children and Youth |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Pages | 99-112 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781317794844 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780415933506 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2022 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences