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III. Contextual Matching (15%) Are you a nervous parent? You can get a company to come in and “baby proof” your entire home.Do you have a fussy baby? Hire someone to get him to sleep through the night. Does your toddlersuck his thumb? You can pay someone to help your child with that, too. Today, the market offers an21 of caregiving services that allow parents to outsource some of their most intimateand iconic parenting activities. In the context of care, outsourcing refers to “the transfer of intimate 22 seen as being performed within the family and by family members to formalcommercial establishments located outside of the family”. Although questions about whether to enrollchildren in day care historically dominate public and academic debates, examples of outsourcing abroader range of family life 23 in recent media headlines. The options of services run the gamutfrom potty training, reading bedtime stories, planning birthday parties, teaching children how to ridea bike, to helping with school projects and 24 kids on college tours.          25   only prevalent among the elite, paid care has been considered common among middleclass families as well. Over the last four decades, the United States witnessed a rise in dual-incomefamilies, movement to urban areas, geographic dispersion of families, more demanding work life, and26 public services. 27 the shortage of support from family and the public sector, it is notsurprising that the market stepped in to fill the care gap by increasing its offerings. Sometimes parentsturn to the market in their efforts to protect parenthood because it is the resource that is most capableof resolving the felt 28 . Outsourcing parenting just creates dynamic care assemblages that workto support families in diverse ways.


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