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Finnish public discussion on childcare has in recent decades been characterised by the rhetoric of freedom of choice
The article pays attention to the contradictory nature of the child home care allowance and reveals possible problems related to it. It argues that from the daily life perspective child home care allowance is related to several dimensions of the daily life of families such as parenthood, children’s wellbeing and the practices of combining work and family
It is worth arguing that having this income-testing element, the Finnish child home care allowance creates economic incentives to low income families to rely on the allowance as an alternative to day care services (Sipilä et al forthcoming)
Summary
Finnish public discussion on childcare has in recent decades been characterised by the rhetoric of freedom of choice. Assessing the Finnish child home care allowance Katja Repo available, the child home care allowance supports informal care arrangements, and the private childcare allowance enables parents to purchase childcare services from the private market. The article pays attention to the contradictory nature of the child home care allowance and reveals possible problems related to it It argues that from the daily life perspective child home care allowance is related to several dimensions of the daily life of families such as parenthood, children’s wellbeing and the practices of combining work and family. The article highlights and evaluates three culturally important assessments through which parents make sense of their choice of home care Those are family time, the best interest of the child and manageable daily life
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