| Abstract: | Working parents and day care are here to stay. By 1990, the United States will have an estimated 24.3 million children under six years of age, a 36% increase from 1979. At least 10.5 million of these children will be members of two wage-earner or single working-parent families, a 63% increase since 1979 (Edelman, 1981). Furthermore, by the year 2000 the typical family will have two wage earners (Menninger, 1981).Elizabeth M. Goetz is director of the Edna A. Hill Child Development Laboratory. Ann Turnbull is acting Associate Director of the Bureau of Child Research. They are both professors at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Marion O'Brien is acting Director of the Infant Development Study Center at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. |
