CHILDREN'S INTERESTS/MOTHERS' RIGHTS - Softcover

Michel, Sonya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300085516 ISBN 13: 9780300085518

Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000

Synopsis

Why is the United States one of the few advanced democratic market societies that do not offer child care as a universal public benefit or entitlement? This book--a comprehensive history of child care policy and practices in the United States from the colonial period to the present--shows why the current child care system evolved as it has and places its history within a broad comparative context.

Drawing on a full range of archival material Sonya Michel shows how child care policy in the United States was shaped by changing theories of child development and early childhood education attitudes toward maternal employment and conceptions of the proper roles of low-income and minority women. And she argues that the present policy--erratic inadequate and stigmatized--is typical of the American way of doing welfare.

About this title

About the Author

Sonya Michel is Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program and professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300085516
• ISBN 13: 9780300085518
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 425