Who cares for our children? : the child care crisis in the other America /
Valerie Polakow ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.
- New York : Teachers College Press, c2007.
- xii, 227 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.
Introduction: Who cares? -- Whose rights? -- Young, vulnerable, and poor : confronting the child care maze -- Struggling and juggling : school, work, and child care -- On the edges : when two parents can't make it -- "Difficult" children : disrupted placements and expulsions -- Immigrant mothers : child care in the shadows -- "It was a wonderful and different change" : when child care works -- The right to child care.
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.