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In this chapter, Canadian policies for families with children under the age of three are compared with those available in eight other affluent countries (i.e., Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the UK, and the US), three from each of Esping-Andersen’s “three worlds” of welfare capitalism (Esping-Andersen, 1990). The focus on policies for families with very young children seems an appropriate choice for a book in honor of Alfred Kahn, who, with co-author Sheila Kamerman, has contributed enormously to international comparative research on the “under-three’s.”
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Phipps, S. (2010). Canadian Policies for Families with Very Young Children in International Perspective. In: Kamerman, S.B., Phipps, S., Ben-Arieh, A. (eds) From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being. Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3377-2_18
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