Child Care for Love or Money?: The Paradox of Child Care: A Guide to the Relationship Between Parents and In-Home Caregivers

by Carol Bandini and Joseph A. Cancelmo

Book Overview

Focusing on the parent-caregiver relationship as only an employer-employee contract is an attempt to bound something that is, inevitably, a sticky, unbounded situation. Parents struggle with issues that touch on the caregiver's value to the family, such as money, time, control, and autonomy. They struggle with what to call the care-giver and how to describe her role. They struggle with their attachment to her, her attachment to them and to their child,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765701782
• ISBN13: 9780765701787
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"