A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890-1960 (repost)
A Mother's Job: The History of Day Care, 1890-1960 by Elizabeth Rose
Oxford University Press | January 14, 1999 | English | ISBN: 0195111125 | 296 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Oxford University Press | January 14, 1999 | English | ISBN: 0195111125 | 296 pages | PDF | 1 MB
Americans today live with conflicting ideas about day care. We criticize mothers who choose not to stay at home, but we pressure women on welfare to leave their children behind. We recognize the benefits of early childhood education, but do not provide it as a public right until children enter kindergarten. Our children are priceless, but we pay minimum wages to the overwhelmingly female workforce which cares for them. We are not really sure if day care is detrimental or beneficial for children, or if mothers should really be in the workforce. To better understand how we have arrived at these present-day dilemmas, Elizabeth Rose argues, we need to explore day care's past.