The Detroit News. A child comes home laughing hysterically about some blond jokes she heard. A black teen is uninvited from a party because the white host's parents fear an integrated party could lead to interracial dating. A Detroit program is offering free child care for low-income families. A full-day latchkey program also is offered at a reduced cost.
Transportation is available from neighborhood schools.
The program runs through June 9 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Education Center near Six Mile and the Lodge Freeway. The kits contain a fingerprint chart, Printake strips, towelettes and an area for a child's most recent photo and vital statistics. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has voted to develop a mandatory safety standard for portable bed rails. The commission is aware of 40 near-miss incidents. Although most manufacturers label their bed rails for children ages 2 through 5, and while the safety commission warns against placing younger children to sleep on adult beds, parents sometimes put children under 2 on beds when a crib is not available.