The Commissioner of New York City's Agency for Child Development reports on a model system for serving career mothers and providing children with the quality home care. (Author/CS)

A lawsuit charging religious and racial discrimination filed against the New York City child care system may result in extensive changes in children's services. (Author)

A number of faulty assumptions about women cloud the real issues facing families who need child care in the 1980s. Until we can isolate the child care issues and discard the emotional underpinnings of women's status, child care cannot become a recognized profession. The first section of this paper focuses on assumptions about women's roles.…

Fingerplays are enjoyable and versatile additions to program activities and can provide an informal opportunity to practice manipulative and coordination skills. As an instructional supplement in a variety of content areas, this form of dramatic play fosters the development of intellectual and language skills. Caregivers of young children often…

This paper identifies two steps day care administrators can take to more efficiently manage staff time. The first step is to know what, why, where, when and how tasks are to be done. The administrator must know whether or not staff activities contribute to the goals of the center. This is the basic element of conserving staff time. The second step…

The trainability and training needs of child care workers are considered by a conference of 26 child care workers from as many residential treatment centers. Information is provided concerning the conference's purpose and background, its participants, and their views on the following: characteristics of good child care workers, sources of…

This book is intended primarily as a guide for parents interested in setting up a babysittint cooperative. Some material presented may be useful to existing co-ops. Chapter headings are as follows: (1) What is a Babysitting Cooperative? (2) Reasons to Form or Join a Babysitting Cooperative, (3) Ways to Recruit Members, (4) First Meeting - Getting…

The objective of the Experimental In-Home Training Program, a component program of the Pennsylvania Research in Infant Development and Education Project, was to determine the viability of an alternative method of training qualified child care workers for the expanding job market in day care and preschool services and to determine its utility for…

A manual setting out the policies of the Neighborhood Centers Day Care Association (NCDCA) describes the day mother's relationship to the agency; her relationship to parent and child; licensing; fees and attendance; the daily program--including meals, rest, clothing, play, field trips, and disciplines; safety; training programs; and health…

This manual describes the Caregiver Language Observation Instrument, a device useful for observing the language behavior of caregivers in infant day care settings. Eleven categories of language behavior are recorded: approval, disapproval, cautioning, soothing, talking to, questioning, labeling, elaborating, singing, directing, and imitating. The…

Describes the Protective Services Program of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services, which was instrumental in making available a statewide emergency fund for use in protective services casework. The development of the emergency fund and its effect on the reduction of child abuse or neglect is discussed. (CM)

Discusses an experimental scale for evaluating the effectiveness of family day care mothers, including information on how the validity of the evaluation criteria was calculated. Cautions use of the scale which is still in the experimental stage. (BR)

Asks some critical questions about the effectiveness and desirability of childminding. (Editor)

Maternal and substitute care were compared in two groups of 5- and 6-month-old infants. Although significant differences favoring maternal care were found, mother-reared infants were comparable to the substitute-care group on 16 of 17 measures of infant functioning. (JMB)

A separation-reunion paradigm and Ainsworth classification procedures were used to assess security of attachment of Kenyan Gusii infants to mothers and caretakers. Correlates of attachment security were specific to mothers and caretakers, suggesting that the association between security of attachment and infant functioning in American studies…