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by: Valerie Polakow
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.7120973
EAN: 9780807747759
ISBN: 0807747750
Label: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Manufacturer: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: April 01, 2007
Publisher: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Sales Rank: 3482458
Studio: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Lack of access to affordable high quality child care is frequently the tipping point that catapults a family into poverty, joblessness, and homelessness-a constant threat to the well-being of women and children. Polakow spent a year traveling around the country listening to low-income women from diverse backgrounds tell their stories of struggle, resilience, distress, and occasional success as they encountered ongoing child care crises. The resulting work is both a compelling account of the lived realities of the child care crisis, and an incisive critique of public policy that points to the United States as an outlier in the international community. Drawing on historical and international perspectives, Polakow creates a groundbreaking analysis of child care as a human right, persuasively arguing for a universal child care system.
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