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.
Why, they ask, are policy makers unable to convert widespread need
into a feasible political agenda? 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. Ultimately, they conclude, we do not need
to make minor changes to our existing policies. We need a
revolution.
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