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Record W4394703148 · doi:10.25071/p9z0cs30

Child care in Canada and the United States

2000· article· en· W4394703148 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Linda A. White

Bibliographic record

VenueCanada Watch · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical science

Abstract

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P arents in Canada and the United States are acutely aware of the continuing difficulties of balancing work and family life, as well as the lack of governmental or employer support for child care and other family programs.Their governments' abysmal records become even starker when the programs and ser vices for parents and children are held up to those available in other countries.Current initiatives at the federal, state/provincial, and local government levels thus must be placed in the context of what other countries already provide in terms of child care and family policies. EUROPEAN EXAMPLESChild care coverage in Sweden is nearly universal.Families with very young children are additionally given assistance in balancing work and family responsibilities.Parents are entitled to approximately 15 months' total parental leave, which can be taken until the child is 8 years old, with high wage replacement rates (80-85 percent) for most of the parental leave period.Similarly in France, government support for children is very generous.Numerous policies for families exist, including family allowances, young children's allowances, school allowances, tax benefits for families with dependent children, an extensive system of child care supported by state revenues, allowances for the hiring of independent childminders, extensive maternity and parental leave programs, and preschool programs for all children from the age of three.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.624
Threshold uncertainty score0.606

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.005
GPT teacher head0.198
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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