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"Children in India have always been surrounded by many adults apart from their own parents. Culturally, the family structure included two generation families dwelling under one roof. In recent years education, urbanization and women's education has impacted family organization giving new structures to family units. Women in the workforce has been rising creating a shift in children's daily lives. With more dual income working families, couples are compelled to seek out of family care for their children. In the contemporary social settings living in metropolitan cities family support is not always a viable option. There is an increasing demand from parents to look for nurturing and safe care giving systems. What are some of the factors that influence parents in making choices for their children's care and well-being? This study seeks to identify the viable choices, support systems that working couple use. Who are the emerging providers to facilitate the life demands of working couples specially women as they go through their reproductive phase to create families? What are some of the professional and child care intersections? ""What do we mean by child care? It is not just day care, given the growing numbers of children who require supervision while their parents work nontraditional and shifting hours. It is also not just care. Beneficial outcomes for children in child care are associated with settings that provide both nurturance and support for early learning and language development. Accordingly, previous distinctions between 'early education' or 'preschool' and 'day care' have unraveled."" (Shonkoff & Phillips, 2000, p. 299). Child care is a complex phenomenon which is intertwined with family functioning and characteristics of children (Vandell & Corsaniti, 1990). Family is the natural setting for a child to thrive. For most of the world's history taking care of children has been a family affair mainly carried out by women. In India, and in the developing world, and also in countries such as Sweden which has the most extensive policy initiatives on child care, women happen to do more housework than men do, and are more likely to care for children (Prasad, 2006)."

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