Nearly half of preschoolers receive child care from relatives.

M2 Presswire, February, 2008

M2 PRESSWIRE-28 February 2008-US Census Bureau: Nearly half of preschoolers receive child care from relatives(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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Relatives regularly provide child care to almost half of the more than 19 million preschoolers, according to tabulations released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Fathers and grandparents were the primary relative child care providers.

The series of tables, Whos Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Spring 2005, showed that among the 11.3 million children younger than 5 whose mothers were employed, 30 percent ...