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  • Child and family well-being
  • Socioeconomic factors in early childhood

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  • Childcare precarity, defined as insecure or unreliable childcare, affects families' economic and psychosocial well-being.
  • Factors like rising costs and the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated childcare instability.
  • This instability impacts family life and early care settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To broaden the concept of childcare precarity to include childcare search status.
  • To examine the association between childcare precarity indicators and caregiver/child emotional distress.
  • To identify distinct profiles of childcare precarity and their links to emotional distress.

Main Methods:

  • Survey data from 3115 US caregivers (Nov 2022-Dec 2023).
  • Assessed childcare unreliability, disruptions, and search status.
  • Employed latent class analysis (LCA) to identify precarity profiles.

Main Results:

  • Childcare unreliability and disruptions correlated with caregiver distress.
  • Childcare unreliability linked to child fear/anxiety; disruptions linked to fussiness/defiance.
  • Childcare search status also predicted emotional distress, enhancing predictive models.

Conclusions:

  • A multidimensional view of childcare precarity is essential.
  • Distinct precarity profiles correlate with varying emotional distress levels.
  • Findings can guide policy interventions for family support.