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Preventive Benefits Of U.S. Childcare Subsidies In Supervisory Child Neglect, Kathryn Maguire-Jack, Kelly M. Purtell, Kathryn Showalter, Sheila Barnhart, Mi-Youn Yang

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Using data from age 3 of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, the current study explores the complex relationships between U.S. child care subsidies and neglect. Specifically, the study examines two research questions: (1) Are U.S. child care subsidies associated with selfreported neglect among low-income mothers? (2) What individual types of self-reported neglect are significantly reduced by receipt of child care subsidy? Using negative binomial regression examining the relationships among mothers who were income-eligible for child care subsidy, we found that child care subsidy was associated with lower levels of supervisory neglect, indicating an important role of subsidy in …