Unstable and Multiple Child Care Arrangements and Young Children's Behavior.

ABSTRACT: Growing evidence suggests that child care instability is associated with child behavior problems, but existing studies confound different types of instability; use small, convenience samples; and/or control insufficiently for selection into child care arrangements. This study uses survey and calendar data from the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study to estimate the associations between three different types of child care instability-long-term instability, multiplicity, and the use of back-up arrangements-and children's internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors at age 3, controlling for a large number of child and family background characteristics. Long-term instability between birth and age 3, as measured in both the survey and calendar data, is associated with higher l

SUBMITTER: Pilarz AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4307839 | biostudies-literature | 2014 4th Quarter

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature