Tabla de Contenidos:
  • About the Authors; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction: The Conflicts Between Earning and Caring; Chapter 2. The Changing American Family and the Problem of Private Solutions; Chapter 3. The United States in Cross-National Perspective: Are Parents and Children Doing Better Elsewhere?; Chapter 4. Reconciling the Conflicts: Toward a Dual-Earner-Dual-Carer Society; Chapter 5. Ensuring Time to Care During the Early Years: Family Leave Policy; Chapter 6. Strengthening Reduced-Hour Work: Regulation of Working Time.
  • Chapter 7. Providing Public Care: Child Care, Preschool, and Public SchoolingChapter 8. Does Policy Matter? Linking Policies to Outcomes; Chapter 9. Developing Earner-Carer Policies in the United States; Appendix A: Description of Cross-National Data Sets Used; Appendix B: Summary of Selected European Union Directives; Appendix C: Construction of Policy Indexes; Notes; References; Index.