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Starting Right: How America Neglects Its Youngest Children and What We Can Do about It.
Kamerman, Sheila B.; Kahn, Alfred J. – 1995
Despite U.S. world leadership in research in child healthcare and development, in all the statistical indicators of children's well-being the United States lags well behind most advanced industrialized societies. This book discusses U.S. public policy issues concerning the healthcare and development of children under age three. Studies are cited…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Development, Child Health, Comparative Analysis
Social Policy and the Under-3s: Six Country Case Studies. A Resource for Policy Makers, Advocates and Scholars.
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Kahn, Alfred J.; Kamerman, Sheila B. – 1994
This collection of six case studies is a by-product of a European-focused study that sought to understand the policies focused on children from birth to age 3, whether directly affecting the children or reaching them indirectly through their parents. The study examined the social infrastructure in which the specific "under-3" policies…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Health, Child Rearing, Child Welfare
A Welcome for Every Child: Care, Education, and Family Support for Infants and Toddlers in Europe.
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Kamerman, Sheila B.; Kahn, Alfred J. – 1994
This report on European developments in infant and toddler care services was prepared to help define issues and options for the improvement and expansion of infant and toddler care and family support systems in the United States. Introductory comments suggest that advanced industrialized countries have almost unanimously elected universal but…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Day Care, Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education