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- Title
Quality Child Care: At Whose Expense?
- Authors
Roseman, Marilyn J.
- Abstract
Quality child care is related to the number of adequately prepared practitioners who are available to children on a long-term basis. Unfortunately, child care practitioners subsidize the true cost of quality child care by working for substandard wages, few benefits, and little recognition of their true worth. The need for adequate compensation for qualified caregivers is the most critical issue facing the profession, because adequate compensation enables trained and educated caregivers to remain in the field, invest in professional development, and it also attracts new students into the field. The true cost of quality should be shared by all members of society, for everyone benefits from investing in the citizens of the future.
- Subjects
CHILD care workers; CAREGIVERS; WAGES
- Publication
Early Childhood Education Journal, 1999, Vol 27, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
1082-3301
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1026011205298