Negotiated Care: The Experience of Family Day Care Providers

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NOTES Introduction 1. For overviews of the child-care problem see, for example, Children's Defense Fund, A Children's Defense Budget (Washington, D.C: Children's Defense Fund, 1988); Martin O'Connell and David Bloom, Juggling Jobs and Babies: America's Child Care Challenge (Washington, D.C: Population Reference Bureau , 1987); Claudia Wallis, "The Child Care Dilemma," Time 129 Gune 22, 1987): 54-60. For policy statements see, for example, B. R. Bergmann, "A Workable Family Policy: Childcare, Income Support, Jobs," Dissent 35, no. 1 (1988): 88-93; Marian Wright Edelman, "Economic Issues Related to Child Care and Early Childhood Education," Teachers College Record 90, no. 3 (Spring 1989): 342-51; Sally Lubeck and Patricia Garrett, "Child Care 2000: Policy Options for the Future," Social Policy 18, no. 4 (1988): 31-37; National Association for the Education of Young Children, "Public Policy Report: Guidelines for Developing Legislation," Young Children 42, no. 3 (March 1987): 43-45; RobertJ. Trotter, "Project Day-Care," Psychology Today 21 (December 1987): 32-38. For surveys of child-care use see U.S. Bureau of the Census, Who's Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Winter 1984-85 (Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1987). For academic evaluations of the effects of day care on young children see Jay Belsky, "Two Waves of Day Care Research: Developmental Effects and Conditions of Quality," in Ricardo C Ainslie (ed.), The Child and the Day Care Setting: Qualitative Variations and Development (New York: Praeger, 1984), 1-62; Jay Belsky, "A Reassessment of Infant Day Care," in Edward F. Zigler and Meryl Frank (eds.), The Parental Leave Crisis:Toward aNational Policy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988), 100-19; Thomas J. Gamble and Edward F. Zigler, "Effects of Infant Day Care: Another Look at the Evidence," in Zigler and Frank, Parental Leave Crisis, 77-99; Alice Sterling Honig, "Research in Review: Compliance, Control and DiScipline," Young Children 40, no. 2 (March 1985): 47-52; Deborah Phillips et aI., "Child Care Quality and Children 's Social Development," Developmental Psychology 23, no. 4 Guly 1987): 537-43; Karl Zinsmeister, "Brave New World: How Day-Care Harms Children ," Policy Review (Spring 1988):40-48. For more popular articles addressing this issue see Earl C Gottschalk, Jr., "Women at Work: Day Care Is Booming But Experts Are Split over Its Effect on Kids," Wall Street Journal (September 15, 1978): 1; Betty Holcomb, ''Where's Mommy? The Great Debate over the Effects of Child Care," New York 20 (April 13, 1987): 72; Donna King and Carol E. MacKinnon, "Making Difficult Choices Easier: A Review of Research on Day Care and Children's Development," Family Relations 37 (October 1988): 392-98; Claudia Wallis, "Child Care: Effects on Children," Time 129 Gune 22,1987):5460 ; The advice to parents is discussed in Chapter 2, where a complete list of references can be found. 2. See Ad Hoc Day Care Coalition, The Crisis in Infant and Toddler Child Care (Washington, D.C: Ad Hoc Day Care Coalition, 1985) and Fern Winston, Copyrighted Material 235 236 NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION "Meeting the Day Care Crisis," Political Affairs 67 (March 1988):5-9, for the use of crisis terminology. For an argument that the "crisis" has been exaggerated, see Ron Haskins, "What Day Care Crisis?" Regulation: AEI Journal of Government and Society 12, no. 2 (1988): 13. 3. This definition comes from Stephen J. Fosburg et ai. , Family Day Care in the United States:Summary ofFindings (Washington, D.c.:Government Printing Office, 1981), 1. 4. Patricia Divine-Hawkins, Final Report of the National Day Care Home Study, 8 vols., U.s. Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1981). 5. For a discussion of these limits, see Alfred J. Kahn and Sheila B. Kamerman , Child Care:Facing the Hard Choices (Dover, Mass.: Auburn House Publishing Co., 1987); Esther Wattenberg, "Family Day Care: Out of the Shadows and into the Spotlight," Marriage and Family Review 3, no. 3/4 (Fall/Winter 1980):3562 . For the studies reviewed as well as other studies of family day care, see Benigno E. Aguirre, "Educational Activities and Needs of Family Day Care Providers in Texas," Child Welfare 66 (September-October 1987): 459-65; Mary Ciurman, "Family Day Care: State of the Art," Day Care and Early Education 12 (Fall 1984); 22-23; Alice Collins and Eunice Watson, Family Day Care (Boston: Beacon Press, 1976); Brenda Krause Eheart and Robin Lynn Leavitt, "Training Day Care Home Providers: Implications for Policy...