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Article: Day care versus reality. (Perspectives on Parenting) (Column)
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- Pediatrics for Parents
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- September 1, 1992
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1992 Pediatrics for Parents, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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High-quality, affordable, readfly-available day care? Forget it. It can't happen. While offering all working parents first-rate substitute child care services at moderate fees appears to be an enlightened response to inescapable modern realities, it actually is a totally impractical solution based on a dismal sense of defeatism.
Let's take a look at the real realities. By nature, high-quality day care must be enormously expensive and somewhat restricted. Regulations in model states stipulate a maximum of three infants or four toddlers to one caregiver, and many child development specialists would contend that two to one and three to one are more appropriate ...