Who cares for our children?
Subtitle: the child care crisis in the other America
By: Valerie Polakow.
Publisher: Teachers College Press; Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780807747742; 9780807747759
Subjects: Child care -- United States; Children with social disabilities -- United States; Poor children -- United States; Low-income mothers -- United States; Poor families -- United States; Child care -- Government policy -- United States
Description: Lack of access to affordable high-quality child care is frequently the tipping point that catapults a family into poverty, joblessness, and homelessness. Polakow presents the compelling stories of low-income women from across the nation and chronicles their resilient struggles in the face of ongoing child care crises. The resulting work is an incisive critique of public policy that points to the shameful record of the United States in caring for its children. Drawing on historical and international perspectives, Polakow creates a groundbreaking analysis of child care as a human right, persuasively arguing for a universal child care system. ... Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Who cares?; title: Whose rights?; title: Young, vulnerable, and poor : confronting the child care maze; title: Struggling and juggling : school, work, and child care; title: Settling for less : when two parents can't make it; title: "Difficult" children : disrupted placements and expulsions; title: Immigrant mothers : child care in the shadows; title: "It was a wonderful and different change" : when child care works; title: The right to child care.