TY - BOOK ID - 134045409 TI - Cash-for-childcare : the consequences for caring mothers AU - Sipila, Jorma. AU - Repo, Katja. AU - Rissanen, Tapio. PY - 2010 SN - 1282908642 9786612908644 1849804613 PB - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, DB - UniCat KW - Child care. KW - Child rearing. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134045409 AB - This insightful book examines the meaning of, and impacts on, cash-for-care systems for mothers of small children. The contributors present a comprehensive overview of the major political and economic contradictions, theoretical debates concerning cash-for-care, and explore the possibility of implementing it into the social policy system. In social research, cash-for-care is often described as a reactionary benefit that operates against the women's interests. Economists, in turn, ask why the state should pay for reducing female employment and for care that is given anyway. Nevertheless, 'woman ER -