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 offer state-funded child
care, it remains scarce in the United States. And even in
prosperous times, child care is rarely a priority for U.S. policy
makers. In In Our Hands: The Struggle for U.S. Child Care Policy,
Elizabeth Palley and Corey S. Shdaimah explore the reasons behind
the relative paucity of U.S. child care and child care support.
They examine the history of child care advocacy and legislation in
the United States, from the Child Care Development Act of the 1970s
that was vetoed by Nixon through the Obama administration's Child
Care Development Block Grant. The book includes data from
interviews with 23 prominent child care and early education
advocates and researchers who have spent their careers seeking
expansion of child care policy and funding and an examination of
the legislative debates around key child care bills of the last
half-century. Palley and Shdaimah analyze the special interest and
niche groups that have formed around existing policy, arguing that
such groups limit the possibility for debate around U.S. child care
policy.
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