First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

How can child care be structured to protect both the interests of children and the rights of women? Must children suffer the "loss" of their childhood through institutional care? Polakow uses her observations of pre-school centers—including profit-run, federally funded, community, and Montessori institutions—to open the "windows of daycare."

How can child care be structured to protect both the interests of children and the rights of women? Must children suffer the "loss" of their childhood through institutional care? Polakow uses her observations of pre-school centers-including profit-run, federally funded, community, and Montessori institutions-to open the "windows of daycare."

This title tackles the burning question of how to nurture young children's well-being and learning to reverse the erosion of childhood.

Explains how weather and water wear away rock and includes two experiments to assist in understanding how erosion works.