Children's care in Italy is a task often entrusted to women rather than men, making it more difficult for them to enter the labour market. This issue is amplified in foreign women where the absence of parental support networks may explain the occupational gap between immigrant women and natives. Nevertheless, very little is known about the strategies that immigrant women adopt to combine work and family in Italy, where welfare system is often inadequate and individuals' social space is essential for activating a support network. Using data from the first national survey on Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens, the aim of the paper is to describe the effective ego-centered support network as the set of people cohabiting or not that support the respondent in managing the children's care. We focus on economically active women with at least one cohabiting child aged 5 and below and their structural and migratory characteristics will also be used for further investigating their behaviour towards their network. The identification of the support network for active foreign women is a first step to study the strategies immigrant women follow in order to combine work and family.