The author describes the current types and availability of child care, its funding patterns, politics, and the major organizations associated with day care in the United States. Social workers and other professionals who wish to become more effectively involved with child care need to be knowledgeable about these issues. The child-care problem in the United States is pervasive and complex; the profession needs to keep up with day care's fast-changing dynamics if it is going to make a significant impact on child care in the 1990s.
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