shared childcare
Community child-rearing arrangement
Shared childcare is an arrangement where parents divide responsibility for looking after their children, or where multiple families take turns caring for each other's kids.
The term often appears in discussions of work-life balance and gender equity: They negotiated a shared childcare arrangement so both could pursue careers.
It can also describe cooperative setups among neighbors or friends: The three families organized shared childcare during summer break.
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
- co-parentingJoint child-rearing by separated adults
- villageSmall rural community
- babysittingCaring for others' children temporarily
- nannyHired child caretaker
daycare · playgroup · commune · taking turns · helping hands · grandparents · neighbors · trusted · juggling · backup plan · pickup · dropoff · playdates · schedules · exhaustion · support · collective · tribe
shared childcarehired help
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