Child Care

As School Districts Compete for Federal Race to the Top Dollars, It's Time to Think Beyond School Walls

Hannah Matthews | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: School Districts, Early Education, Child Care, Young Children, Race to the Top, Education News

School districts concerned with improving outcomes for children would do well to look to kids' earliest years. High quality early childhood education improves the odds for high needs children.

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Who's the Pervert? Is Hitting a Child More Acceptable Than Holding Her?

Erika Christakis | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Parenting, Spanking, Child Abuse, Child Care, Schools, Gay Parents, Parenting Techniques, Corporal Punishment Schools, Corporal Punishment, Paul Rusconi, Culture News

Single fathers -- gay fathers, no less -- seem to be under special scrutiny lest their loving attention veer into unsavory territory. Are we so uncomfortable with male nurturing that we assume something perverse about it?

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Top 5 Ways to (Temporarily) Ditch Your Kids

Alex McCord | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Xbox, Playdates, Cafemom, Homework, Child Care, Timberly Whitfield, Home Schooling, Iphone, Real Housewives of New York City, Melrose Place, Ipad, Coffee Shop Confessions, Alex McCord, Julia Knight, Andrew Shue, Video, Parents News

Kids are great, and I love mine. Except when they make me want to bury my head under a pillow and scream. Every once in a while, the adorable darlings...

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Nursing Sagas of a Working Mama

Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Mothers Day, Child Care, Feminism, Breastfeeding, Women Empowerment, Latino Voices News

In all the debate about breastfeeding, I feel that it is a personal choice that may or may not work for all mothers; however, it is critical that as a society, we have the policies and infrastructure in place to support those decisions.

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For Mother's Day: A Present That Values Families

Hannah Matthews | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Child Care Options, Mother's Day 2012, Maternity Leave, Child Care, Paid Prenatal Leave, Affordable Child Care, Mother's Day, Family Medical Leave Act, Paid Family Leave, Prenatal Leave, Politics News

It turns out that if our infants do well, our nation does well too. By packaging paid family leave and quality affordable infant care, we can give babies a strong start in their first year of life. That's a package of policies ready for wrapping.

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Moms Get Political: An Interview With Momsrising Co-founder Joan Blades

Martha Burk | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Working Mothers, Child Care, MoveOn.Org, Mother's Day, Pay Equity, Mothers, Family Leave, Working Moms, Mother's Day 2012, Women Pay Gap, Momsrising, Politics News

Unlike their mothers and grandmothers who didn't see politics as the answer to these problems, the new generation of moms has political change in their sights. And they're making their voices heard.

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Child Careless: Without Help, Working Poor Parents Struggling

HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Breakdown, Working Poor, Welfare, Child Care, Poverty, California, Jerry Brown, California Budget Crisis, Business News

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Every time she pulls away from her parent's house, leaving behind her 3-year-old daughter, Angelina, as she heads to work at a l...

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Children's Advocates To Bloomberg: Don't Cut Funding For Kids!

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: After School, Coalition for Children, Bloomberg Budget Cuts, Toxic Stress, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Children's Aid Society, Child Care, Mayor Bloomberg, Budget Cuts, Michael Bloomberg, Gregory Bender, Bloomberg Budget, Stephanie Gendell, Nancy Maxwell, New York Kids, New York Education, New York News

A coalition of more than 150 New York organizations, ranging from the Police Athletic League to the Children's Aid Society, have signed a letter urgin...

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Pro Life or Pro Sperm

David Morris | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Abortion, Birth Control, Child Care, Augustine, Contraception, Catholic Church Abortion, Republicans Abortion, Abortion Rights, Women's Health, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Planned Parenthood, Politics News

Recent events make clear the need for a new language to describe the raging debate about sex and birth. Consider the problematic word that dominates our conversation: pro-life.

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Saying Yes to Digital Media in Preschool and Kindergarten

Lisa Guernsey | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Education Technology, Preschoolers, Child Care, Young Children, Preschool, Elementary School, Pre-Kindergarten, Ipad, Kindergarten, Education News

We need to be preparing teachers who know time-tested methods for teaching young children but who also see new technologies as a tool for sparking a love of learning.

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Giving New And Expecting Moms Power In The Palm Of Their Hands

Tina Sharkey | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Johnson and Johnson, Health, Pregnancy, Mama, Babies, Text Messaging, Childbirth, One, Newborns, Amy Graff, Parenting, Global Motherhood, Child Care, Babycenter, Cell Phones, Parents, Bblog-Globalmotherhood, Impact News

Moms all over the world need the right information. Last April, we helped launch MAMA, an initiative to deliver critical health information to women in the developing world through text and voice messages on basic mobile phones.

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Federal Funding, Child Care and Jobs

David Gray | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Government Child Care, Family Assistance Federal, Child Care TANF, Government Family Assisstance, Federal Child Care, Child Care, Politics News

Even as our nation's unemployment rate has fallen to 8.5%, unemployment remains stubbornly high in many areas. States like California, Nevada and Mis...

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Let's Pull Families Back From the Edge

Judy Patrick | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: California Unemployment Rate, Education for Children, Child Care, Child Care Cuts, Los Angeles News

In today's economy, where budget cuts seem to be an easy fix, we are constantly placing families' well-being on the edge of a very steep cliff with no sign of a safety net.

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Mom Is Buying and Making Thanksgiving Turkey This Year

Sarah Damaske | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Work-Life Balance, Child Care, Maternity Leave, Children, Working Mothers, Thanksgiving, Business News

All due respect to Norman Rockwell, but it's time to repaint the portrait of America and show an accurate picture of family and holidays. Mothers are more likely than not to be earning part of the family income this year.

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Faced With a Dilemma

Deborah Smith | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Kabul, Afghanistan, Fathers Staying Home, Working Mothers, Bordeaux, Child Care, Media News

Do I take the job in Afghanistan, based in Kabul with some travel to the regions, with a humanitarian organization I've always admired? I've been work...

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Progress on Child Care Policy

David Gray | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Families, Child Care, Working Parents, Child Care Policy, Work-Life Balance, Childcare Policy, Working Families, Child Care Protection Act, Politics News

Child care policy has long been an area of stalled progress. However, perhaps as resources are constrained and likely will be for a while, attention is turning to other realistic ways to improve child care quality. Surprising bipartisan action might result.

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5 most expensive states for child care

CNN Money | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Child Care, Pricey States, Massachusetts, Child Care in Different States, Expensive States, Most Expensive Child Care, Massachusetts-Education, Parents News

The rising cost of child care has become a heavy burden for cash-strapped parents, particularly in these states, where it averages at least 15% of a f...

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Supporting Grandparents Caring for Children

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Grandrally, Grandparents, Grandparenting, Grandmothers, Relative Child Care, Relatives, Foster Care, Child Care, Bv-Parenting, Impact News

As rampant unemployment and housing foreclosures ravage families across our nation, an increasing number of children are living in households headed by grandparents and other relatives, often three generations sharing scarce resources due to the recession.

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Report: Illinois Paid Sex Offenders To Babysit

Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Illinois Babysitting, Welfare, Child Care Assistance Program, Child Care, State Program, Crime, Department of Children and Family Services, Federal Program, Subsidies, Ex-Offenders, Illinois Sex Offenders, Parents, Chicago News

The screening methods used to qualify babysitters for a state-run childcare subsidy program in Illinois were so inadequate that in several instances c...

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Getting Children Ready For School

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Juvenile Delinquency, K-12 Schools, Child Care, Unemployment, Prison Spending, Achievement Gap, Debt Deal, Education Cuts, Back to School, Impact News

Staying in school and receiving a quality education are the best deterrents to juvenile delinquency. Yet almost half of our states spend on average more than three times as much per prisoner as per public school pupil.

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Protect The Children

The Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, Ph.D. | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Religion, Black Children, Christianity, Budget, Poverty, African American Children, Child Poverty, Child Care, Children, Minority Children, Poor Children, Black Voices News

Nobody loves like children. They don't come to earth with the ability to hate; they learn that. They aren't born with prejudice and fear; they learn that. They often continue to love through rejection, humiliation and abuse.

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Why the Government Should Help Low-Income Women Pay for Child Care

Christine Bork | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Taxes, Welfare, Single Mothers, State Assistance, Child Care, Wic, Single Parents, Federal Aid, Child Nutrition, Chicago News

It's no secret that common sense is in short supply in contemporary policy-making. A case in point is the situation that most lower-income women with children find themselves in.

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Too-Short Maternity Leave -- Not Working Itself -- Increases Depression In Moms

Posted 09.20.2011

It's hardly news to working moms, but for all of those who think women should stay at home with the kids, a new study from the National Bureau of Econ...

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Fighting Cuts to Child Care

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Fund, Childrens, New York, Children, Mayor Bloomberg, Marian Wright Edelman, Child Watch, Funding, Cdf, Column, Mwe, Defense, Nyc, Child Care, Cuts to Child Care, Bloomber, Children's, Impact News

New York City parent Yvonne works as a home care attendant to help support her 3-year-old son Darnell. Earlier this year she received a letter saying he would be dropped from the program.

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Child Care Saved In Mayor's New Budget Proposal

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Child Care Nyc, New York Budget, Child Care New York Budget, Child Care, Mayor Bloomberg, Ny News, Mayor Bloomberg Budget, New York News

NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday unveiled a shrinking budget that would cut corners throughout New York City – from classrooms...

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