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Key Findings

• An estimated 930 million children under age 15 are being raised in households where all of the adults work.

• 36 percent of the families interviewed had left a young child home alone. Thirty-nine percent had left a sick child home alone or had to send a child to school or day care sick. Twenty-seven percent had left a child in the care of a paid or unpaid child.

• 67 percent of parents with income under $10 a day have had to choose between losing pay and leaving sick children home alone.

• In 66 percent of the families where parents had to leave children home alone or with an unpaid child, the children suffered accidents or other emergencies.

• In 35 percent of the same cases, the children had suffered from developmental or behavioral problems.

• 23 percent of parents interviewed took children to work, often under unsafe conditions.

• 51 percent of the parents interviewed who worked in the informal sector needed to bring their children to work regularly.

• Parents who had access to formal childcare were the least likely to have left a child home alone sick. Six percent of those who used formal childcare had left their child home alone sick compared to 22 percent of those who only used informal care.

• 76 percent of parents of children with chronic conditions had difficulty at work or had lost pay, jobs, or promotions because of caring for them.

• 49 percent of women had lost pay or job promotions or had difficulty retaining jobs because of the need to care for sick children compared to 28 percent of men.

• 55 percent of parents with high school or more education sent their children to formal childcare, compared to 28 percent of
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