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CHILD CARE POLICY FOR SANTA MONICA

A PROPOSED CHILD CARE POLICY FOR SANTA MONICA

This research proposes a social welfare policy for consideration by the City of Santa Monica. The proposed policy addresses the unmet daycare needs of indigent children aged five through 12 years of age. This policy proposal is presented in six parts, as follows: (1) basis of social allocation; (2) nature of social provisions; (3) service delivery structure; (4) program funding; (5) organizational context; and (6) strategies for policy adoption.

Major changes have occurred in the demographics of the American work force in the past three decades. In the mid-1960s, women workers accounted for approximately one-third of all Americans active in the work force. In the 1990s, this proportion has risen to at least one-half of the American work force (Carlson, 1990, pp. 4-6). Thus, on the one hand the demand for child daycare is up significantly as a result of the increased numbers of women working who must also provide care for their children, while on the other hand the numbers of neighborhood women available to provide child daycare is down significantly because fewer women are at home during the day (Wash and Brand, 1990, pp. 17-24).

In contemporary American society, it is necessary for all adults in a majority of the country's households to work outside of the home, if an acceptable standard of living is to be maintained (Belsky, 1990, pp. 10-12). When school-age children are present in these households, the problems faced by parents are exacerbated. As a point of fact, 60 percent of mothers with school-age children hold jobs outside of the home.

Adequate child daycare in the United States is expensive. Costs for such care range from approximately $2,600 per year to well over $15,000 per year (Hewett, 1990, pp. 14-15). The national average for child daycare is estimated at approximately $3,000 per year, dependent primarily on where one lives--city or country, industrial st...

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