Child Care Today: Getting It Right for Everyone

From the universally admired author of the best-selling classic Your Baby and Child, the first comprehensive—and objective—book on the state of child care in America and the world today. Who is caring for todays children? How well are they succeeding? What does care cost, and who is paying for it? How do parents go about choosing care for their children, and are they satisfied with what they find? Penelope Leach answers these and other urgent questions with facts and figures gathered from the most current research, brought to life by the voices of parents, including those involved in her own five-year study.Leach sees work-home balance as being the major conundrum of the day. She delineates the challenge of fitting childrens unchanged needs into societys changing demands and the dilemma of todays parents needing to be in two places at once.