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Day care deception : what the child care establishment isn't telling us / Brian C. Robertson.
Van Pelt Library HQ778.63 .R623 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robertson, Brian C., 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child care--United States--Evaluation.
- Child care.
- Day care centers--United States.
- Day care centers.
- Family policy.
- Evaluation.
- United States.
- Child care services--Government policy--United States.
- Child care services.
- Child care services--Government policy.
- Family policy--Political aspects--United States.
- Child development--United States.
- Child development.
- Work and family--United States.
- Work and family.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 222 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Daycare deception : what the child care establishment isn't telling us
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- Robertson shows how the day care industry works to expand its power and silence its critics, much to the detriment of the children--and parents--who depend on its existence.
- Contents:
- 1 A Lethal Reticence 15
- 2 An Intolerable Truth 42
- 3 A Conspiracy of Silence 62
- 4 The Day Care Establishment 92
- 5 Working Parents' Necessity or Yuppie Subsidy? 122
- 6 The Family under Siege 140
- 7 How Parents Can Take Back Parenting 170.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1893554678
- OCLC:
- 52214746
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