In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy

by Corey S Shdaimah, Elizabeth Palley, Corey S. Shdaimah

Book Overview

A call for better child care policies, exploring the reasons why there has been so little headway on a problem that touches so many families.

Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families, both parents work, and women's paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families' incomes. Most of these families yearn for available and affordable child care--but although most developed countries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479862657
• ISBN13: 9781479862658
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"