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Childcare and Welfare Reform

Childcare and Welfare Reform
“During the past 150 years the family economy was revolutionized twice”
(Hernandez 145) affecting children under the age of six whose parent or parents work. The first childcare revolution began more than 100 years ago, and affected children over five, as parents spent most of the day at jobs. Today, as global economic situations become an increasing concern, with instability of work, the increasing divorce rate, and out -of-wedlock childbearing households begin to experience change, corresponding revolutions in childcare have also occurred. For example in 1995, 60% of children from birth to five years of age who had not yet enrolled in school—13 million children—participated in a non parental childcare or early education program. Childcare is no longer an experience for a few children; it is rapidly becoming the norm.
In response to President Clinton’s passage of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, (PR...

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