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Options for Improving the Military Child Care System
Gail Zellman
出版
RAND National Defense Research Institute
, 2008
主題
Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management
Family & Relationships / Babysitting, Day Care & Child Care
Family & Relationships / Military Families
History / Military / United States
Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration
Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Social Science / Children's Studies
Technology & Engineering / Military Science
ISBN
0833044141
9780833044143
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xW3fAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"The evidence presented in this paper questions whether the current U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) system of in-kind subsidies for child care is meeting DoD recruitment, readiness, and retention goals or service member needs in an optimal way. DoD appears to be reaping limited benefits from the substantial subsidies provided to families that use Child Development Centers. Many families cannot or choose not to use the subsidized on-base DoD programs; these families receive no support for child care costs. The authors' findings suggest that the DoD child care system could change in a number of ways to better meet DoD and family needs. First, it could redistribute resources within the current system. Rethinking priority policies from the perspective of both child care need and the degree to which care characteristics fit with likely DoD and service member needs would be another important way to change the system. DoD may also wish to expand the child care benefit to cover more military families and a broader set of child care needs. Alternatively, DoD could expand access to child care through the use of cash benefits, vouchers, and/or negotiated discounts with local providers that meet quality standards, while continuing to provide some amount of DoD Family Child Care homes and Child Development Center care. DoD may also want to invest more resources in assessing the value of child care benefits, as it does for other military compensation components." -- provided by publisher.
