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.
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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.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 227 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2006038068 Type of material Book Personal name Polakow, Valerie. Main title Who cares for our children? : the child care crisis in the other America / Valerie Polakow; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. Published/Created New York: Teachers College Press, c2007. Description xii, 227 p. : ill.; 23 cm. ISBN 9780807747742 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0807747742 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780807747759 (cloth: alk. paper) 0807747750 (cloth: alk. paper) LC classification HQ778.63. P65 2007 Contents 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. LC 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. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index. Dewey class no. 362.71/20973 Geographic area code n-us---Other system no. (OCoLC)ocm76786703 (OCoLC)76786703
