Does the Military Child Care System Serve Its Purpose?

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Zellman ◽  
Susan Gates ◽  
Michelle Cho ◽  
Rebecca Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Military Child ◽  
The Military ◽  
Care System

Options for Improving the Military Child Care System: Summary

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail L. Zellman ◽  
Susan M. Gates ◽  
Michelle Cho ◽  
Rebecca Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Military Child ◽  
The Military ◽  
Care System

The Military Child Care Connection

2001 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 128 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.-A. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Military Child ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals The Military Child Care Act of 1989

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Michelle M. Bessette
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Military Families ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Service Members ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Congressional Hearings ◽  
Military Child ◽  
History Of ◽  
Child Development Center ◽  
The Military

The Department of Defense (DoD) operates the largest employer-sponsored child care in the nation. For Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and more, the Military Child Care Act (MCCA) of 1989 was enacted to establish law-mandated standards for all branches. Providing high-quality, available child care to service members helps maintain a mission ready force. Before the passing of the MCCA, the services’ child care programs were tainted with poor oversight, deplorable conditions and child abuse scandals detailed in GAO reports and congressional hearings. Investigations and legislative activity leading up to the passing of the MCCA, which became law under the National Defense Authorization Act of 1990 and 1991, forced the DoD to take responsibility for a new breed of service members—the military family.As a military spouse with children and employee of the DoD who co-supervises a child development center (CDC), I understand the importance of the MCCA and am able to witness DoD’s investment in their military families. The history of abhorrent conditions has all but vanished, due in part to public access of government publications. The timeline of this legislation in combination with nongovernment publications helps tell the story of the how the military model of child care became one in which the civilian sector strives to accomplish. My decade long career of federal service, my desire to be more knowledgeable of the original MCCA and my interest in military history inspired my research. My intended audience are those unfamiliar to military child care and those who may not understand the needs and sacrifices of our nation’s military families.

Evaluation of Ambulatory Care Classification Systems for the Military Health Care System

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Georgoulakis ◽  
Atanacio C. Guillen ◽  
Cherry L. Gaffney ◽  
Sue E. Akins ◽  
David R. Bolling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Ambulatory Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
Military Health ◽  
Military Health Care ◽  
The Military ◽  
Care System

Caveat Australia? Child Care under a Neo-conservative Agenda: A Canadian Example

1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Hayden
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Conservative Approach ◽  
Public System ◽  
Corporate Development ◽  
Basic Tenet ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Care System ◽  
Tax Cuts

The recent swing towards a more conservative (Liberal) federal political agenda in Australia parallels similar trends in Canada. A basic tenet of this neo-conservative approach is the reduction of education, health and welfare budgets, along with tax cuts to encourage business and corporate development. Policies are presented within a free market, user pays, corporate framework. Program reductions are justified through an anti professional/reduced government philosophy. This paper analyses the development of the child care system in one province of Canada. The analysis demonstrates that, despite manifold distributions to the child care system, the lack of a constitutional dimension has left the program vulnerable. In the uproar over larger programs, the dismantling of a public system of child care is proceeding quietly and with little protest. Analyses of the activities that predicated this demise present a warning as comparable circumstances arise in Australia.

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