Family Child Care in the United States

This research brief summarizes the literature review entitled Child Care in the United States written by Taryn W. Morrissey of the Department of Human Development, Cornell University, for Research Connections, and addresses the following questions: What is family child care? What do we know about family child care providers? What do we know about who uses family child care? What do we know about the quality of family child care? This brief will also describe forthcoming studies on family child care and future areas of research in family child care.