It might seem a little counterintuitive, but the best time to start thinking about child care is before you have a baby. Infant and toddler care is the most expensive kind of child care and often the ...
The soaring cost of child care in the U.S. can now exceed what families pay for housing or college. That's according to recently released data that outlines the heavy financial burden on the nearly 14 ...
A sign advertising positions at a preschool in Austin, Texas. Some centers have reported wait lists as large as 1,500 children due to staffing shortages that are keeping classrooms closed. Credit: ...
LaFrancesca Mitchell was shocked when she first discovered how much day care would cost her in Las Vegas. Everywhere she looked charged about $750 a month, and that was six years ago when her son was ...
We studied the effect of state punitive and supportive prenatal substance use policies on reports of infant maltreatment to child protection agencies. Punitive policies criminalize prenatal substance ...