In " In Search of a National Child Care Policy , " Jill Norgren ( 1981 ) acknowledges the Nixon - vetoed 1971 Child Development Act as the " benchmark of national comprehensive child care politics , " but noted that congressional ...
Author: Abbie Gordon Klein
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0791409759
Category: Social Science
Page: 450
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The Debate Over Child Care: 1969-1990 offers a new perspective on the pervading problem of providing child care services in the United States. The author traces the contemporary debate over the sponsorship of child care services and compares this to the past debate over the sponsorship of kindergartens during the Progressive Era. Klein compares the function of child care across societal sectors, and points out that turf fighting and imbedded ideological differences have prohibited the development of a proactive social policy for providing needed child care services. She analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of five different sponsors: the public schools, the church, private enterprise, non-profit organizations, and corporations. Past and present federal legislation is discussed in relation to the divisive issue of sponsorship.