Interrelative Care: Nonparental Child Care
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Policymakers have to look past the surface in order to make decisions regarding infant and toddler care arrangements. For example based off a study of children born in 2001, half of over 10,000 children in the United Sates were in a version on nonparental child care at 9 months. Of those children in child care: 26 percent were in relative care, 15 percent were in nonrelative care, and 9 percent in center-based care. However, each of these percentages needs to be evaluated on a further level because their frequency differs in both financial and racial circumstances. Children who were born in families with incomes below the poverty line were less likely to be put into nonparental care, and black children were most likely to be put in center