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Lack of access to affordable high-quality child care is frequently the tipping point that catapults a family into poverty, joblessness, and homelessness. Polakow presents the compelling stories of low-income women from across the nation and chronicles their resilient struggles in the face of ongoing child care crises. The resulting work is an incisive critique of public policy that points to the shameful record of the United States in caring for its children. Drawing on historical and international perspectives, Polakow creates a groundbreaking analysis of child care as a human right, persuasively arguing for a universal child care system. ... Publisher description.

Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Who Cares? -- CRITICAL MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF CHILD CARE -- CARING FOR CHILDREN: A PRIVATE OR PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY? -- A QUESTION OF LOSSES AND RIGHTS -- NOTES ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK -- 1--Whose Rights? -- SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP AND MOTHERHOOD -- FDR'S SECOND BILL OF RIGHTS -- THE HUMAN CAPABILITIES APPROACH -- CHILD CARE AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- 2--Young, Vulnerable, and Poor: Confronting the Child Care Maze -- ANNETTE AND NICHOLAS: AGAINST ALL THE ODDS -- FRANCESCA AND TAMERON: A KAFKAESQUE QUEST -- CARMINA, MICHELLE, AND THE BABY: A GRANDMOTHER FIGHTS FOR THEIR RIGHTS -- LIFE UNDER THE WELFARE REGIME -- 3--Struggling and Juggling: School, Work, and Child Care -- MELISSA AND HER CHILDREN: A DEFICIT OF TIME AND RESOURCES -- KIM AND GENEVIEVE: DREAMS DERAILED -- HIGHER EDUCATION, LOW-INCOME STUDENT MOTHERS, AND CHILD CARE -- 4--On the Edges: When Two Parents Can't Make It -- HANNAH, THOMAS, AND SETH: SETTLING FOR LESS -- DANIELLE, RONALD, AND THEIR SONS: WORKING POOR AND HOMELESS -- NOT GETTING BY IN AMERICA -- 5--"Difficult" Children: Disrupted Placements and Expulsions -- JUNE AND JOSEPH: A CHILD REJECTED -- CHIQUILA AND ANITA: A CHILD TRANSFORMED -- EVERYTHING ON THE LINE: DISRUPTED FAMILIES, DESTABILIZED CHILDREN -- 6--Immigrant Mothers: Child Care in the Shadows -- ANA AND LUCIA AND THEIR CHILDREN: STUCK WITH BAD OPTIONS -- CRISTINA AND MATEO: AN INVISIBLE AND TENUOUS EXISTENCE -- MARIA AND HER CHILDREN: A STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE -- MARABEL AND HER DAUGHTERS: A MOTHER'S WORST NIGHTMARE -- IMMIGRANT FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN -- LIVING BELOW A MINIMUM SOCIAL THRESHOLD: IMMIGRANT MOTHERS AND CHILD CARE -- 7--"It Was a Wonderful and Different Change": When Child Care Works -- TANYA AND HER CHILDREN: AN ENDURING BELIEF IN EDUCATION

A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Half of all beneficiaries in the Department of Defense's (DOD) Tricare health care program are women. With a health care system historically oriented towards men, DOD has had to work to ensure that its women beneficiaries receive the full range of medical services they are entitled to, including obstetrical and gynecological care and diagnostic services such as Pap smears and mammograms. TRICARE-covered benefits are in line with American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists guidelines and are comparable to women's health benefits offered by two of the largest health plans under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). DOD also requires some beneficiaries to share in the cost of their health care. Both DOD's and FEHBP's copayments, which are the same for men and women, vary depending on the plan option and the providers selected. Women beneficiaries report being satisfied with the health care benefits they receive under TRICARE. Some women beneficiaries, however, have expressed concerns about obtaining services when they are stationed overseas or in remote areas. Some active duty women are also concerned that command personnel may not understand women's health care needs."

This paper explores the concept of care as a socialisation goal for school-age children among contemporary Chinese parents. Data was generated from interviews with parents from rural and urban families in Nanjing, China in 2011– 2012. Parents' spontaneous remarks on care revealed how today's Chinese parents highlighted childcare as parental responsibilities, cultivated children's self-care skills, and promoted children's other-caring qualities. In so doing, parents attempted to motivate concurrent and future elder care, improve children's social competence, and inspire altruistic other-care in their children. Although Chinese parents' imagination of care is largely centralised within the family due to sociocultural contexts such as the culture of intensive parenthood, China's care deficiency in a neoliberal economy, and the One-Child Policy, Chinese parents also aspired instilling other-caring qualities in their children.

ABSTRACT Objective: To analyze the obstetric nurses' discourse on self-care and decisions make of their life and body, and their relation with care for other women. Method: A qualitative, post-structuralist research with 14 obstetric nurses. Data were obtained from in-depth interviews and submitted to discourse analysis, based on the concepts of Foucault. Results: The findings reveal that caring of obstetric nurses is produced in the encounter between their own body and the body of the women under their care. The nursing profession was presented not only as a means of work and support but as an essential device for the training of women as subjects. The collective narrative is marked by the attitude of compassion, by the processes of subjectivity incited by the professional practice, by indicators of critical and political care, and by the construction of an interlocking network among obstetrical nurses. Conclusions and implications for practice: Acting in obstetric nursing results in self-care and care(less) effects of other women. The study contributes to the analysis and knowledge of the life and work scenario of obstetrical nurses. It also reassures the potential of care as an art that is present in the women's practices.

Democracy should not be understood as a new synthesis that characterizes modern societies as heralded by Francis Fukuyama in The End of History and the Last Man, as an "end of history" homogenizing and harmonious reaching its apex in the "Market Democracy" after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. For it is by finding unity, the dreamed harmony that history closes and protects itself in eternal stability. End of conflicts, end of confrontations, end of new ideas, and end of progress. Democracy thus presents itself as a perpetual conflict movement, this conflict ensuring the nourishment of a dynamism that maintains a certain tension within the self, living with the other. The self is thus constructed with, against, and for the other in an anxious confidence taking into account both the vulnerability and the menace of otherness. Thus democracy is for those who wish to care for the other. Our call is to dissent to anything that might hinder the flourishing of human ideals. "With the other" is the good will to be part of a social and political co-living. "Against the other" expresses the inevitability of conflict and dissent." "For the other" is the reason for which dissent becomes necessary.