Making Sense of Childcare Instability Among Families with Low Incomes: (Un)desired and (Un)planned Reasons for Changing Childcare Arrangements

Alejandra Ros Pilarz; Heather Sandstrom; Julia R. Henly

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.5.06

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 5 120-142

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.5.06

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online July 26, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Pilarz, Alejandra Ros, Heather Sandstrom, and Julia R. Henly. “Making Sense of Childcare Instability Among Families with Low Incomes: (Un)desired and (Un)planned Reasons for Changing Childcare Arrangements.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(5): 120–42. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.5.06. The authors gratefully acknowledge funding provided by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Grant 90YE0133. The contents of this article are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not represent the official views or endorsement of the funding agency. We especially thank study participants for contributing their valuable time to this project. We are grateful to Carolyn Barnes, Sarah Bendix, Daysi Diaz-Strong, Jaimie Grazi, Olivia Healy, Jonathan Holmes, Sandra Huerta, and Jaeseung Kim for research assistance; and to our Illinois and New York State and regional partners for project collaboration, especially Linda Saterfield, Janice Molnar, Maria Whelan, David Alexander, Marcia Stoll, Kimberly Hunt, SuzAnne Kollmann, Melinda Denham, Justine Hanif, and Iris Rivera. Direct correspondence to: Alejandra Ros Pilarz, at pilarz@wisc.edu, Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1350 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Alejandra Ros Pilarz^a,
Heather Sandstrom^b and
Julia R. Henly^c

^aAssistant professor at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States
^bSenior fellow in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., United States
^cProfessor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, United States