Caring For America S Children

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on Child Care Policy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309040327

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Who Cares for America's Children? by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on Child Care Policy Pdf

Few issues have aroused more heated public debate than that of day care for children of working parents. Who should be responsible for providing child careâ€"government, employers, schools, communities? What types of care are best? This volume explores the critical need for a more coherent policy on child care and offers recommendations for the actions needed to develop such a policy. Who Cares for America's Children? looks at the barriers to developing a national child care policy, evaluates the factors in child care that are most important to children's development, and examines ways of protecting children's physical well-being and fostering their development in child care settings. It also describes the "patchwork quilt" of child care services currently in use in America and the diversity of support programs available, such as referral services. Child care providers (whether government, employers, commercial for-profit, or not-for-profit), child care specialists, policymakers, researchers, and concerned parents will find this comprehensive volume an invaluable resource on child care in America.

Author : American Academy of Pediatrics
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 959 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780553393828

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Caring for Your Baby and Young Child by American Academy of Pediatrics Pdf

Covers infant care, provides medical information, guidelines on growth, safety rules, and a discussion of family issues such as adoption, twins, etc.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Children and Families
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : PSU:000033083650

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Caring for America's Children--a Congressional Symposium on Child Care and Parenting by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Children and Families Pdf

These hearings transcripts present testimony regarding child care before the Senate's Subcommittee on Children and Families. The hearings attempted to answer three questions before action is taken by Congress concerning the care of the nation's children: (1) what is best for children?; (2) what do families really want?; and (3) what truly effective steps can be taken to enable families to provide the best care they can get for their children? Oral and written statements were offered by: (1) Indiana Senator Dan Coats; (2) Diane G. Fisher, a psychologist and policy consultant from the Independent Women's Forum; (3) Dr. Stanley Greensban, a child psychologist; (4) Jay Belsky, a professor of human development and family studies; (5) Dr. Armand Nicholi, a clinician and researcher from Harvard Medical School; (6) Ellen Gallinsky, a representative from the Family and Work Institute; (7) Darcy Olgen, a representative of The Cato Institute; (8) Danielle Crittenden, a representative from The Woman's Quarterly; and (9) Anita Blair, a representative of the Independent Women's Institute. (EV)

Author : American Academy of Pediatrics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1581104839

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Caring for Our Children by American Academy of Pediatrics Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on Child Care Policy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309045803

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Caring for America's Children by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Panel on Child Care Policy Pdf

Do child care centers and family day care homes provide quality care for the children they serve? Do parents know how to identify quality when selecting a center or family home for their children? This easy-to-read, accessible booklet provides an overview of what constitutes quality in out-of-home care. Based on the National Research Council's detailed examination of child development and child care, Who Cares for America's Children,this booklet provides practical guidance for parents, child care providers, and policymakers. It highlights what to look for in a center or family day care home, presents what researchers and experts know about the best settings for children, and suggests what characteristics of quality care are amenable to standards or regulations. Single copy, $6.50; 2-9 copies, $5.50 each; 10 or more copies, $3.75 each (no other discounts apply).

Author : Edward Zigler,Katherine W. Marsland,Heather Lord
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300156263

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The Tragedy of Child Care in America by Edward Zigler,Katherine W. Marsland,Heather Lord Pdf

Why the United States has failed to establish a comprehensive high-quality child care program is the question at the center of this book. Edward Zigler has been intimately involved in this issue since the 1970s, and here he presents a firsthand history of the policy making and politics surrounding this important debate. Good-quality child care supports cognitive, social, and emotional development, school readiness, and academic achievement. This book examines the history of child care policy since 1969, including the inside story of America's one great attempt to create a comprehensive system of child care, its failure, and the lack of subsequent progress. Identifying specific issues that persist today, Zigler and his coauthors conclude with an agenda designed to lead us successfully toward quality care for America's children.

Author : Barbara R. Bergmann,Suzanne Wiggans Helburn
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-05-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781403962119

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America's Child Care Problem by Barbara R. Bergmann,Suzanne Wiggans Helburn Pdf

Two renowned economists delve into the state of professional child care in America and the problems it faces by examining the industry itself and discussing such problems as the quality and cost of care, and offer solutions to fix these problems to ensure a better future for our children. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Author : Institute of Medicine and National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309173933

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America's Children by Institute of Medicine and National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Committee on Children, Health Insurance, and Access to Care Pdf

America's Children is a comprehensive, easy-to-read analysis of the relationship between health insurance and access to care. The book addresses three broad questions: How is children's health care currently financed? Does insurance equal access to care? How should the nation address the health needs of this vulnerable population? America's Children explores the changing role of Medicaid under managed care; state-initiated and private sector children's insurance programs; specific effects of insurance status on the care children receive; and the impact of chronic medical conditions and special health care needs. It also examines the status of "safety net" health providers, including community health centers, children's hospitals, school-based health centers, and others and reviews the changing patterns of coverage and tax policy options to increase coverage of private-sector, employer-based health insurance. In response to growing public concerns about uninsured children, last year Congress voted to provide $24 billion over five years for new state insurance initiatives. This volume will serve as a primer for concerned federal policymakers and regulators, state agency officials, health plan decisionmakers, health care providers, children's health advocates, and researchers.

Author : Catherine E. Rymph
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469635651

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Raising Government Children by Catherine E. Rymph Pdf

In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is intended to help. How did a vision of dignified services become virtually synonymous with the breakup of poor families and a disparaged form of "welfare" that stigmatizes the women who provide it, the children who receive it, and their families? Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fueled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care. What emerged was a system of public social provision that was actually subsidized by foster families themselves, most of whom were concentrated toward the socioeconomic lower half, much like the children they served. Analyzing the ideas, debates, and policies surrounding foster care and foster parents' relationship to public welfare, Rymph reveals the framework for the building of the foster care system and draws out its implications for today's child support networks.

Author : Deborah Blythe Doroshow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226621579

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Emotionally Disturbed by Deborah Blythe Doroshow Pdf

Before the 1940s, children in the United States with severe emotional difficulties would have had few options for care. The first option was usually a child guidance clinic within the community, but they might also have been placed in a state mental hospital or asylum, an institution for the so-called feebleminded, or a training school for delinquent children. Starting in the 1930s, however, more specialized institutions began to open all over the country. Staff members at these residential treatment centers shared a commitment to helping children who could not be managed at home. They adopted an integrated approach to treatment, employing talk therapy, schooling, and other activities in the context of a therapeutic environment. Emotionally Disturbed is the first work to examine not only the history of residential treatment but also the history of seriously mentally ill children in the United States. As residential treatment centers emerged as new spaces with a fresh therapeutic perspective, a new kind of person became visible—the emotionally disturbed child. Residential treatment centers and the people who worked there built physical and conceptual structures that identified a population of children who were alike in distinctive ways. Emotional disturbance became a diagnosis, a policy problem, and a statement about the troubled state of postwar society. But in the late twentieth century, Americans went from pouring private and public funds into the care of troubled children to abandoning them almost completely. Charting the decline of residential treatment centers in favor of domestic care–based models in the 1980s and 1990s, this history is a must-read for those wishing to understand how our current child mental health system came to be.

Author : Elliot Haspel
Publisher : Black Rose Writing
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781684334278

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Crawling Behind: America's Child Care Crisis and How to Fix It by Elliot Haspel Pdf

“I’ve totally washed away the dream of having one more child.” “I had never intended to be a stay-at-home-parent, but the cost of child care turned me into one.” “We had to pull our toddler out of his program because we couldn’t afford to have two kids in high-quality care.” These are not the voices of those down on their luck, but the voices of America’s middle class. The lack of affordable, available, high-quality childcare is a boulder on the backs of all but the most affluent. Millions of hard-working families are left gasping for air while the next generation misses out on a strong start. To date, we’ve been fighting this five-alarm fire with the policy equivalent of beach toy water buckets. It’s time for a bold investment in America’s families and America’s future. There’s only one viable solution: Childcare should be free.

Author : Frank J. Macchiarola,Alan Gartner
Publisher : New York : The Academy of Political Science
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : UOM:39015016168869

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Caring for America's Children by Frank J. Macchiarola,Alan Gartner Pdf

This book portrays the condition of America's children with examples of how some individuals and institutions have succeeded in serving them. Despite these successes, the status of children today is far from satisfactory. Experts provide insights and offer suggestions for improving the delivery of children's services.

Author : Sonya Michel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300085516

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Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights by Sonya Michel Pdf

Annotation 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.

Author : Valerie Polakow
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807775929

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Who Cares for our Children? by Valerie Polakow Pdf

Valerie Polakow spent a year traveling around the country listening to low-income women from diverse backgrounds tell their stories of struggle, resilience, distress, and occasional success as they encountered ongoing child care crises. The resulting work is both a compelling account of the lived realities of the child care crisis, and an incisive critique of public policy that points to the United States as an outlier in the international community. 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. “Who Cares for Our Children? is one of the most disturbing books I have read in a long time. It should have a major impact on debates over poverty and social policy.” —From the Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed “In this beautifully written and provocative volume, Polakow deftly steps aside and lets real mothers, struggling against the odds to keep their families safe and sound, speak for themselves about what they need. This book delivers a timely message: Child care should be viewed as a human right.” —Martha F. Davis, Northeastern University School of Law “A collection of moving and often chilling personal narratives. . . . Who Cares for Our Children? is a powerful and well-documented analysis of the worlds of low-income families.” —Beth Blue Swadener, Arizona State University “Thoroughly researched and grounded in a heartfelt sympathy for the struggles of families . . . that face such painful choices and dilemmas in meeting the needs of their children.” —James Garbarino, Loyola University Chicago

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Child care
ISBN : UOM:39015042175698

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Healthy Child Care America by Anonim Pdf