Reports involvement of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in establishing a pilot day care center for workers' children. Parent education and center program are described. (NH)

Argues that there is a serious lack of research on programs for day care for school-aged children. Examines the opinions of working mothers of school-aged children and the arrangements they make for after school care. (MS)

This paper sorts out the kinds of information policy makers need at the community level, suggests ways to acquire kinds of information especially relevant and difficult to obtain, and indicates the range of options open to communities in developing day care programs. (Author)

A combination of many factors indicates that during this decade the number of children requiring day care will increase enormously. Planning the expansion of day care services to meet this need involves public policy decisions on several fronts--welfare, manpower, education--with possibilities of great benefit or loss to society. (Author/WY)

The benefits of day care - both to the child who receives it and to the mother who is freed by it - depends to an important degree upon helping the mother resolve her intrapsychic conflicts. This paper describes a project designed to meet the mother's needs in the day care situation. (Author/CS)

Suggests that concern for "latchkey" children during World War II was hyperbolic. Examines the variety of successful solutions parents devised for child day care: (1) day care arrangements made by families themselves; (2) Lanham Act child day care centers; (3) centers operated by private industry; and (4) the very successful Extended…