Who Cares for Our Children?: The Child Care Crisis in the Other America - Hardcover

Polakow, Valerie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807747750 ISBN 13: 9780807747759

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2007

Synopsis

Lack of access to affordable high quality child care is frequently the tipping point that catapults a family into poverty, joblessness, and homelessness - a constant threat to the well-being of women and children. Polakow spent a year traveling around the country listening to low-income women from diverse backgrounds tell their stories of struggle, resilience, distress, and occasional success as they encountered ongoing child care crises. The resulting work is both a compelling account of the lived realities of the child care crisis, and an incisive critique of public policy that points to the United States as an outlier in the international community. Drawing on historical and international perspectives, Polakow creates a groundbreaking analysis of child care as a human right, persuasively arguing for a universal child care system.

About this title

About the Author:

Valerie Polakow is a professor of Educational Psychology and Early Childhood at Eastern Michigan University. She has written and edited numerous books, including Lives on the Edge and The Public Assault on America's Children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0807747750
• ISBN 13: 9780807747759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240