Research Paper

Sarah Alsharqi

Outsourcing care

Feb 8, 2017

One of the themes our group came up with is outsourcing care, that is when parents

seek help from someone to help care for their kids, such as grandparents, family

members, relatives, or nannies, and sometimes Day-Cares. In cases where parents are

separated and live in different homes, seeking help from the other parent could count as

a form of outsourcing care.

Quotes:

“ ​"Not really just the nanny. We don’t have our relatives here.* We have some friends

that are good. They could assist us, but we leave that far outside the margins so it’s for

something really important some it’s not a frequent scenario."

“I never had any of my kids in childcare or daycare. I don’t know how that even works.

It’s also very expensive, so my family has always helped: my brothers, I have two

brothers, my mom, my aunt, my husband, everybody who’s available.”

“My husband’s sister Sandy is living in town She is really nice and we are very close to

our next-door neighbor, Diane Her little son is just a little older than John. Her daughter

Kelly and our son Michael are in the same age. So, we have neighbor of children at the

same age. If you need to run one of them to the doctor because they cut themselves,

you could call the neighbor. I don’t see how people would do it if they were new to the

city and they don’t have that support network.”

"My mom really helps, like... I mean, if she can’t watch her, usually one of [my

girlfriend’s] friends can watch her or her mom can watch her for a few hours here and

there and everything. But, like, as her dad, I feel like it’s my job to just sort of suck it up

and figure it out, you know? Like, I got that paper turned in on time, and still read to [my

daughter] that day, so, like, you figure it out."

Um, we hire a private nanny who comes to our house. Yeah, we couldn’t get in the

childcare here at DU. They have a lottery system which was really frustrating because

that would be the perfect scenario for us to have her here. So that would be um. You

know when I was first hired here I was told that DU offers childcare, so I was assuming

ok there would be no problem*. We got into the lottery last year and we were 22nd out

of 22nd. So we had no chance to even use that as an alternative, so we are going to try

again, but let's see it is difficult because we have to figure out other ways. She is gunna

start childcare in April, but hopefully will hopefully that it will be in June here at fisher

other wise we need to figure out something that is closer to home."