Preferences, Constraints, and Information Parental Child 偏好，约束，与信息的父母的孩子.ppt

* Interviews revealed multiple contexts that parents needed to “satisfice”. [Ajay elaborated the work and child care market as two constraining factors. In addition, School, family, and one’s broader social network both enables and constraints options.] In this way, for many parents, child care may be conceptualized less as a choice, and more as an accommodation to often overlapping, conflicting demands. – A point that Ajay will pick up on in a minute * * * Social network members are more immediately accessible than formal information and referral sources. They are embedded in the contexts (work, school, family, etc) that parents are trying to negotiate and therefore may better understand what parents need. Alternative sources of information are often elusive. Little evidence that parents were choosing networks over some other source that they recognized to be available. (very little spontaneous discussion of child care R Rs, for example) Social network members are credible sources to parents, and therefore parents seem to believe in the trustworthiness of the arrangement/provider recommended by a network member. [quote on slide] -Someone who has first hand knowledge of an arrangement does not just offer a referral but also suggests either directly or indirectly that the arrangement/provider is good enough to recommend. -- But somewhat surprisingly, respondents also put great faith in the information provided by referrers who did not have first hand experience with the arrangement/provider they were recommending. In several cases, the information was once or twice removed from the person doing the referring. The referral appeared to be sufficient to legitimate the proposed option. -- Moreover, referrals did NOT necessarily come from close network ties; often fairly casual acquaintances could be influential to search process *For example, co-worker mentions to 188 that her friend was opening a family child care home. Although her co-worker presumably coul