Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights
The Shaping of Americas Child Care Policy
By Sonya Michel
(Yale University Press, Paperback, 9780300085518, 432pp.)
Publication Date: September 2000
Categories: Parenting - Child Rearing, Public Policy - Social Policy, Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
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Description
The current child care system in the United States can be described as erratic, inadequate, and stigmatized. In this comprehensive history of American child care policy and practices from the colonial period to the present, Sonya Michel explains why child care has evolved as it has and compares U.S. policy to that of other democratic market societies.












