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Average rating: 3.82 · 61 ratings · 11 reviews · 6 distinct works
Children of Alcoholism: A S...

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Minding the Children: Child...

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Women and Alcohol: A Danger...

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Drugs Alcohol & Your Children

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“In a survey of mayors of major cities, 83 percent said there was not enough funding to meet the additional child care costs of work requirements. Places are limited and waiting lists are long. But a study published in 2004 found that when it was available, good quality, center-based care for the one- to two-year-old children of poor mothers who have to work had a positive effect on the children’s social and intellectual development. Most of them spent at least thirty-four hours a week in day care, and they did better than comparable children cared for at home.”
Geraldine Youcha, Minding the Children: Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the Present

“From Colonial times to the present, children have lived with a bewildering variety of caretaking systems. Some, in the bosom of their families, have been looked after by women other than their mothers. Some have been herded into institutions or sent away from home or exposed to substitute mothers in one arrangement or another. America’s historical amnesia has let the details of many of these arrangements slip into oblivion, forcing society to make a fresh start again and again.”
Geraldine Youcha, Minding the Children: Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the Present

“In 1944 sociologist Mirra Komarovsky called standards for women “a veritable crazy quilt of contradiction.” Half of the young college women questioned in her survey of their expectations for the future said they expected to stop work permanently when they married, and only 10 percent said they hoped to combine marriage and a career. (The war experience did not seem to have altered basic assumptions about women’s roles.) Dr. Komarovsky campaigned for greater freedom: “The girl who wishes to marry and have five children should be permitted to do so, and likewise it should be made possible for those who wish to combine marriage and careers to achieve this. At present, the latter path is fraught with difficulties and cruel dilemmas, but it needn’t be.” On the same page in The New York Times in which Komarovsky’s survey was reported, Senator Taft of Ohio was quoted as supporting reduced funds for Lanham Act Centers lest they be carried over, surreptitiously, for use after the war and encourage women to leave home.”
Geraldine Youcha, Minding the Children: Child Care in America from Colonial Times to the Present



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