Who cares for our children? : the child care crisis in the other America /

Who cares for our children? : the child care crisis in the other America /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Polakow, Valerie.
Imprint:	New York : Teachers College Press, c2007.
Description:	xii, 227 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	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. Child care. Child care -- Government policy. Children with social disabilities. Low-income mothers. Poor children. Poor families. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6284194

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ISBN:	9780807747742 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0807747742 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780807747759 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807747750 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Who Cares?
1. Whose Rights?
2. Young, Vulnerable, and Poor: Confronting the Child Care Maze
3. Struggling and Juggling: School, Work, and Child Care
4. On the Edges: When Two Parents Can't Make It
5. "Difficult" Children; Disrupted Placements and Expulsions
6. Immigrant Mothers: Child Care in the Shadows
7. "It Was a Wonderful and Different Change": When Child Care Works
8. The Right to Child Care
Notes
References
Index
About the Author