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Penelope Leach - Child Care Today - 9780745647005 - V9780745647005
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Child Care Today

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Description for Child Care Today Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 173 x 32. Weight in Grams: 732.
Child care is the 21st century's biggest unsolved conundrum: children's needs have not changed, but in a world that puts a premium on paid employment and personal fulfilment, who should, who can, and who wants to meet them?


Children's wellbeing - even survival - depends as it always has on somebody taking care of them every minute of every day and night. When most mothers and fathers are in paid employment, much of the day-to-day hands-on care of children has to be done by someone else. But who is to do that caring, and ... Read more


In this book Penelope Leach, a world renowned expert on child development and parenting issues and co-director of the UK's largest child care study, offers an honest evaluation of these complex issues. She considers the view points of politicians, parents, and children themselves, and summarises what international research can tell us about the effects of different kinds of care on families and children.


Economic recession lends the book additional urgency. Must employed parents work even longer hours to protect their jobs and incomes? Will governments retreat from family friendly policies such as paid parental leave and flexible working to protect small businesses? For Leach, what matters most is recognising that children's care is not just the responsibility of parents, often struggling to be in two places at once, but is intrinsic to the well-being of the whole of society. Child care is a problem not just for families, but for nations.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745647005
SKU
V9780745647005
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Penelope Leach
Penelope Leach, Hon. Senior Rersearch Fellow, Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues, Birkbeck

Reviews for Child Care Today
"The renowned psychologist and child specialist Dr Penelope Leach has, after seven years of painstaking research, published a new work, Childcare Today: What We Know and What we Need to Know. Its conclusions that good child-care won't damage children could mean a guilt-free return to work for many ex-yummy-mummies, and will come as a blessing to mothers already working." ... Read more

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