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  2. Child care - Wikipedia

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    Child care is provided in nurseries or crèches or by a nanny or family child care provider caring for children in their own homes. It can also take on a more formal structure, with education, child development, discipline and even preschool education falling into the fold of services.

  3. Stay-at-home dad - Wikipedia

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    A stay-at-home dad taking care of children in the American Midwest c. 2000. A stay-at-home dad [a] is a father who is the main caregiver of the children and is generally the homemaker of the household. The female equivalent is the stay-at-home mother or housewife. As families have evolved, the practice of being a stay-at-home dad has become ...

  4. Nanny - Wikipedia

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    Typically, a live-in nanny is responsible for the entire care of the children of their employers. This includes anything from washing the children's clothes, tidying the children's rooms, supervising homework, preparing children's meals, taking children to and from school, and taking children to after-school sports and/or activities.

  5. Nursemaid - Wikipedia

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    In the Victorian household, the children's quarters were referred to as the 'nursery', but the name of the responsible servant had largely evolved from 'nurse' to 'nanny'. The Nursery Maid was a general servant within the nursery, and although regularly in the presence of the children, would often have a less direct role in their care.

  6. Caregiver - Wikipedia

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    Typical duties of a caregiver might include taking care of someone who has a chronic illness or disease; managing medications or talking to doctors and nurses on someone's behalf; helping to bathe or dress someone who is frail or disabled; or taking care of household chores, meals, or processes both formal and informal documentations related to ...

  7. Care work - Wikipedia

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    Effective care for the sick allows people to remain productive and continue contributing to society. Care work is essential to well-being.Without care and nurturing, it is thought that children cannot develop into high-functioning individuals and will have difficulty as adults maintaining (or expanding) their well-being and productivity. [3]

  8. Mother - Wikipedia

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    The verb "to mother" means to procreate or to sire a child, or to provide care for a child, from which also derives the noun "mothering". [4] Related terms of endearment are mom (mama, mommy), mum (mummy), mumsy, mamacita (ma, mam) and mammy. A female role model that children can look up to is sometimes referred to as a mother-figure.

  9. Parentification - Wikipedia

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    Instrumental parentification involves the child completing physical tasks for the family, such as cooking meals or cleaning the house. Emotional parentification occurs when a child or adolescent must take on developmentally inappropriate emotional support roles, such as a confidante or mediator for (or between) parents or family members. [2] [3]