Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights: The Shaping of America`s Child Care Policy

by Sonya Michel

How did we arrive at the current child care system in the United States, 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.

432 pages, Hardcover

First published April 10, 1999