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America's Child Care Problem: The Way Out
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“It's time to shine an intense spotlight on child care. The question of who provides it and how it’s valued remains an unresolved political conflict. The national conversation is, in fact, stuck--and in need of “the way out” promised by Bergmann and Helburn’s book. What they’ve given us is a rational, well-defined, and workable approach that should inspire a new and better public debate and provide hope for millions of American families.” --Faith A. Wohl, president, Child Care Action Campaign
“No problem ripples through American society more than our lack of safe child care. Government policies have fallen flat, leaving fathers and mothers feeling torn between their roles as members of the work force and protectors of the future generation. Bergmann and Helburn show us that solutions exist, in this guide to sound family values, in the truest sense.” --Ambassador Swanee Hunt, director, Women and Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
“This book contains a soundly-researched review of the problems with child care and a bold proposal for solutions. The ideas put forth by economists Barbara Bergmann and Suzanne Helburn need to be an important part of the child care debate in coming months and years ahead” --Ellen Galinsky, author of Ask the Children, and president, Families and Work Institute
“America's Child Care Problem: The Way Out is an engaging, thoughtful, provocative book about a crucial topic: the need to address the affordability and quality of child care for all families. The authors provide a clear, accessible overview of the key issues, and an enormously helpful guide to the challenges of building a better system.” --Mark Greenberg, Center for Law and Social Policy
"...an engaging work accessible to generalist readers but also of value to readers interested in policy analysis..."--Choice
"...I would recommend this book to policy makers, educators, and especially parents who are interested in quality child care."--CNNMoney online
About the Author
Barbara R. Bergmann has published several books on welfare, child care, and social policy, including Is Social Security Broke?: A Cartoon Guide to the Issues, and In Defense of Affirmative Action. She is Professor Emerita of Economics at American University and the University of Maryland.
Suzanne W. Helburn is Professor of Economics Emerita at the University of Colorado at Denver. She has published widely on the cost and quality of child care.
17/02/2011
This books was written in 2001, but it's very relevant even now ten years later. It's much easier to read than all the edited, biased, "advertising contaminated" information that is available on the internet these days. We know that there's a crisis in the child care industry, but alot of people do not know just how serious the problems are. Children under the age of three who are being warehoused in poor quality child care centers are being damaged psychologically from the poor care. Their brain functions are being stunted and important developmental milestones are being missed. These kids are being changed for life by long days spent in the care of poorly trained and disattached caregivers. The child care crisis is huge and the authors havfe done a fantastic job covering the details. There are solutions and I'm so glad that the authors addressed these in their book.
16/03/2002
This book gives a complete summary of the major problems with child care in the United States related to the high cost to parents, the mediocre quality of most care, and the difficulty parents have finding it. The authors argue that the affordability problem can only be solved through large increases in financial aid and that the federal government is the only practical source given the magnitudes involved. They also make recommendations for more public spending to create incentives for parents to demand good quality services and for providers to give it. I found the book extremely informative, authoritative, and easy to read.
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