Day Care: Problems and Prescriptions

ALICE S. Honig

doi:10.1037/0011493

Special issue day care - problems, process, and prospects

Child Care Quarterly ◽

10.1007/bf01554102 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. co3-co3

Keyword(s):

Day Care ◽

Special Issue ◽

Care Problems

Download Full-text

Special needs and family day care: Problems and promise

Infants & Young Children ◽

10.1097/00001163-199310000-00005 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 20-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Arthur J. Frankel ◽

Yastnina Vinci ◽

Ann Marie Mumm

Keyword(s):

Special Needs ◽

Day Care ◽

Family Day Care ◽

Care Problems

Download Full-text

A Child of the Sixties: The Great Society, the New Right, and the Politics of Federal Child Care

Journal of Policy History ◽

10.1353/jph.2001.0005 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 215-250 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Kimberly Morgan

Keyword(s):

Child Care ◽

Middle Class ◽

Day Care ◽

The United States ◽

Moral Authority ◽

Child Rearing ◽

Care Services ◽

Education And Health ◽

The Sixties ◽

Care Problems

In 1971, a coalition of legislators and advocates put together a bill to establish the foundations of a public, universally available day-care system in the United States. Backed by Democrats, Republicans, and a highly mobilized set of interest organizations, the bill's middle-class appeal made it seem like a political sure bet in the months preceding the 1972 election season. Over the course of 1971, however, support for the bill eroded, and by December most House Republicans had jumped ship. On December 9, President Nixon vetoed the legislation, criticizing its “fiscal irresponsibility, administrative unworkability [sic], and family-weakening implications.” Such direct federal provision of day-care services, he claimed, “would commit the vast moral authority of the National Government to the side of communal approaches to child-rearing over the family-centered approach.” The day after the veto, however, Nixon signed the 1971 Revenue Act, which included tax breaks for families who use private day-care services. In late 1972, Congress passed legislation to reauthorize Head Start, a program providing early childhood education and health services for disadvantaged, preschool-aged children. Nixon's own welfare-reform proposal included day care for poor women. Clearly, only the middle class was at risk from “communal approaches” in federally supported child care; poor families, and particularly women on welfare, could use public day care while the middle class would be subsidized to solve their child-care problems through the private sector.

Download Full-text