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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.

The Erosion of Childhood

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    A Paperback / softback by Valerie Polakow

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 12 April 1992
      ISBN-13 9780226780054
      978-0226780054
      ISBN-10 0226780058
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      Age groups: adolescents Age groups: children Philosophy

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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