American child care today
Scarr, Sandra, 1998
American Psychologist, 53(2), 95-108
A discussion of the current state of child care in America from the perspective of two disparate goals: the first fostering mothers’ employment and the second children’s development; these two ends demand compromise between the affordability of child care and the ever increasing costliness of new regulations
Other
A comparative enforcement study: Survey report of negative enforcement options and practices
National Association for Regulatory Administration, 1998
Conyers, GA: National Association for Regulatory Administration.
A survey of the negative enforcement practices used by regulatory agencies on adult assisted-living, child care, and child residential care licensing programs in the United States and Canada
Reports & Papers
Family child care peer-to-peer exchange
Haack, Peggy, 1998
New York: Ms. Foundation for Women.
A policy briefing identifying issues, dilemmas, and unanswered questions by and about the family child care field, based on discussions from four family child care grantee organizations
Other
Needs assessment of child care centres in the former city of Toronto
Ying, Jane, 1998
Canadian Journal of Public Health, 89(5), 308-314
A study of Toronto’s 235 child care centers' (CCCs) that conducted a needs assessment surrounding the CCCs’ operation and administration, and their level of compliance with health and safety regulations through audits conducted by health department officials and interviews of the CCCs’ supervisors through a questionnaire format
Reports & Papers
Regulation: An imperative for ensuring quality child care
Gazan, Harold S., 1998
New York: Foundation for Child Development.
An examination of the current status of governmental child care regulation in the United States, including a discussion of current shortcomings of regulatory protection, and recommendations for improved regulation at the state and federal level
Other
Regulatory enforcement styles
Gormley, Jr., William T., 1998
Political Research Quarterly, 51(2), 363-383
A study of child care inspectors and their differing regulatory enforcement styles against the backdrop of individual-level and state-level variations in regulatory stringency, regulatory flexibility, and the technical support supplied by their agencies, based on interviews with 104 child care inspectors in Colorado, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania
Reports & Papers
State regulations and child care choice
Hofferth, Sandra L., 1998
Population Research and Policy Review, 17(2), 111-140
An investigation of the effects of regulation on parental choice of child care and the indirect effects of regulation through the price, quality, and availability of care from the National Child Care Survey of 1990
Reports & Papers