Archive Report
Archive Report
Current Supply and Demand
Search for Affordable and Quality Care
The choice was a grim one. Informed that the day-care center serving her two preschool children had closed and having no one else to care for them, a Wichita, Kan., woman left the children, aged 3 and 4, in her car parked outside the factory where she worked. Had she stayed home, she would have risked being fired for unjustified absence.1
Not every case is so extreme, but just about every working mother has her own horror story to tell about the problems of obtaining adequate, affordable day care for her children. In a society where mobility is a way of life, few working parents live close to relatives or friends willing to tend their children. In ...