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Children's Interests/Mother's Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policyreviewed by Annie Georges - 1999 Title: Children's Interests/Mother's Rights: The Shaping of America's Child Care Policy Author(s): Sonya Michel Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven ISBN: 0300085516, Pages: 432, Year: 1999 Search for book at Amazon.com Providing and funding child care has taken center stage in
recent policy debates. Yet this discourse is typically focused on
helping mothers make the transition from welfare to work. Sonya
Michel suggests that such an approach is too narrow, and argues
that universal government-supported child care is needed. However,
the author's analysis does not inform the reader why this type of
child care is essential to women's social rights and children's
interests. Rather, it is a well-documented historical
analysis of the events that have prevented the fruition of
universal government-supported child care in the United States This
historical analysis is valuable in that it adds to our
understanding of how inadequate child care contributed to child
labor during the industrial revolution. Surprisingly, the analysis
also enhances our understanding of how inadequate child care may
have led to occupational segregation as women first entered the
labor market during that period.
Michel's thesis is that the United States does not have a
universal public child care policy because women's... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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