Changing Child Care: Five Decades of Child Care Advocacy & Policy in Canada

Prentice, Susan (editor)

ISBN 10: 1552660621 / ISBN 13: 9781552660621

Published by Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2001

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Minor wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Changing Child Care: Five Decades of Child Care Advocacy & Policy in Canada
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552660621
• ISBN 13: 9781552660621
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-Fiction

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Synopsis

Most parents of young children need child care services to help them work or study. Yet the licensed child care system has space for less than one in ten children and is generally unaffordable for most parents. Quality, accessibility and affordability vary wildly within and between provinces and territories. While Quebec has a 5-a-day child care system, the rest of the country leaves child care to the family and the market. When and why do governments implement progressive child care policies? The contributors in Changing Child Care address this and other questions, and examine the different child care systems Canadians have adopted.

The history of the five decades of mobilization and policy making in Canada is explored throughout this book. Unlike those who would claim that child care is primarily a private family matter, the authors argue that child care is better understood as a public responsibility and part of the public good.

About the Author

Susan Prentice is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba, where she specializes in family, gender and public policy. Her most recent book is Changing Childcare: Five Decades of Child Care Advocacy and Policy in Canada (2001, Fernwood Publishing) She is a long-time childcare advocate and works closely with community groups.