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How should society care for the children of parents who cannot, will not, or choose not to care for their sons and daughters full time? What is the best way to bring up children when both parents work? These are contemporary concerns, yet the same questions have been asked - and answered - throughout American history. In Minding the Children, Geraldine Youcha gives us the first well-documented overview of the different ways children in this country...
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Blau (economics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) discusses problems of child care, such as low quality of care, lack of availability, high expense of care, and low earnings and high turnover of child care providers, from an economic perspective, focusing on conceptual issues, models, data, and empirical results. He describes the US child care market and presents economic models, analyzes aspects such as demand, supply, price, and determinants...
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""No touch" policies, where caregivers, teachers, and other child workers are being informed they cannot touch children in their care, are growing in popularity. Hands Off! critically engages "no touch" by sharing related stories from the field, stories that validate the popularity of "no touch." "No touch" is presented and interrogated as a moral panic prevalent throughout our society. In an attempt to reframe "no touch," sexuality is considered...
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"Why is the United States one of the few advanced democratic market societies that do not offer child care as a universal public benefit or entitlement? This book - a comprehensive history of child care policy and practices in the United States from the colonial period to the present - shows why the current child care system evolved as it did and places its history within a broad comparative context."--Jacket.
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The problem of sexual abuse in day care has increasingly come to the attention of both the public and child abuse researchers during the last few years. Nursery Crimes: Sexual Abuse in Day Care is the result of a two year nationwide investigation of sexual abuse in day care, conducted in an attempt.
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In this important book, William T. Gormley, Jr., argues that child care is a social problem of critical importance and that there are compelling reasons for government intervention. Because child care quality affects how children grow up - for better or for worse - the government has a responsibility to improve and reshape the child care system. Gormley offers a balanced, comprehensive analysis of market, government, and societal failures to ensure...
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