Child Care Choices: Balancing the Needs of Children, Families, and Society

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Summary: A Liberal perspective on child care
Review: A primer on public policy on child care, contains proposals for a 'brave new world'-style child care system, where Government and community-directed collective child care starts from birth onwards. Zigler wants daycare to extend as long as the workdays of mothers and fathers, implement before- and after-school care, etc.

The problem is, their own data shows the obvious solution: The best "day care" is parental care. Searching for better out-of-home care is pointless when in-home care - by mothers - is the real and best solution for children. Their data is good, but the attempt to square the real needs of children with the hollow feminist ideology that in-home mothering isn't important is ultimately self-refuting.