Women’s work: mothers, children and the global childcare crisis - - Research reports and studies

There is an urgent need to solve the global care crisis to improve the lives of both women and children and to grow economies. [...] Children in the poorest Across 66 countries around the world representing countries and from the poorest families are the most two-thirds of the global population, there are huge likely to be left alone. [...] This unpaid care is live in the Mekong River Delta, often suffer from extreme also borne by adolescent and even younger girls, passing poverty and are exhausted and anxious as a consequence on the costs to the next generation in the form of lost of trying to do their best by their grandchildren. [...] Additionally, the country has put in place a number of creative policies to support children, with a premium on care – among these are the Older Persons Grant, which recognises the role of many grandparents in childraising, the child support grant and a disability grant focused on the needs of caregivers of children with disabilities. [...] Invest in better data We need to understand better the circumstances of the millions of children whose parents are in employment, and how caregivers are coping with the joint demands of care and of employment – particularly where there are few legal protections and little public provision of care.