Welfare Reform on the Web (January 2002): Child Welfare - Overseas

FRAMING CITIZENSHIP IN FRANCE AND FINLAND AND IN THE 1990s: RESTRUCTURING MOTHERHOOD, WORK AND CARE

J. Heinen and H. Martiskainen de Koenigswarter

Social Politics, vol. 8, 2001, p. 170-181

France and Finland have succeeded in partially supplanting public services with home care for young children aged 0-3 supported by allowances.

HOW ARE SWEDISH WOMEN FARING? CHILD CARE AS A GAUGE

A. Nyberg

Social Politics, vol. 8, 2001, p. 206-209

The development of child care provision in Sweden in the 1990s can be interpreted as a concession to, and strengthening of, the dual earner model and a sign of the continuing emphasis placed on the value of paid work and full employment.