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Access to high-quality childcare betters outcomes in the following domains: neuro-typical brain development;¹ reading and associated competencies (vocabulary, language performance, and emergent literacy);² and social-emotional development (emotional understanding, social problem solving, and learning engagement).^3,4 It yields the highest short and long-term benefits for low-income children relative to their higher-income peers.^5,6,7

A positive co-parenting relationship with their child’s mother is strongly associated with both the quantity and quality of father involvement.^1,2  When mothers support fathers’ relationships with their children and parents can cooperate with and support one another in raising their child, fathers see their children more, engage in more activities with them, and have more positive relationships with them.^3,4,5 The quality of parents’ relationships also matter: mothers who have positive relationships with their children’s fathers are more likely t

Over the past year, LBJ students, under the guidance of policy professor and director of CFRP and the Center for Health and Social Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Dr. Cynthia Osborne, worked on their capstone Policy Research Project (PRP) "Enhancing Child Care in Austin" with United Way for Greater Austin, a key advocate for early childhood education in Central Texas.