Our Children's Future

Assembling key experts and activists in the area of Canadian child care policy, this book makes an important contribution to understanding how Canada, with its particular institutions, politics, and values, should design a national child care strategy.

GORDON CLEVELAND is Senior Lecturer, Division of Management, University of Toronto. MICHAEL KRASHINSKY is Professor of Economics, Division of Management, University of Toronto.

Acknowledgments

ix

Contributors

xiii

Introduction

3

(18)

Part 1 Child Care and the Social Union: Who Should Do What?

Introduction

21

(4)

Child Care and Canadian Federalism in the 1990s: Canary in a Coal Mine

25

(37)

Martha Friendly

The Politics of Child Care in Canada: Provincial and Federal Governments

62

(7)

Bob Rae

The Federal Imperative

69

(5)

Tom Kent

Child Care and the Social Union Framework Agreement: Lament or Leverage?

74

(18)

Alfred MacLeod

Discussion

83

(6)

Part 2 What the Rest of Canada Can Learn from Quebec and from Other Countries

Introduction

89

(3)

What We Can Learn from the Quebec Experience

92

(14)

Jocelyne Tougas

Getting Good Child Care for Families: What Can Canada Learn from Other Countries?

106

(20)

Helen Penn

Discussion

118

(5)

Part 3 What Is Good Quality Child Care and How Do We Get It?

Introduction

123

(3)

Moving towards Achieving Quality Child Care

126

(16)

Gillian Doherty

Training, Quality, and the Lived Experience of Child Care

142

(27)

Hillel Goelman

The Role of Caregiver Training

169

(6)

Ellen Vineberg Jacobs

The Professionalization Process in Child Care

175

(9)

June Pollard

Judy Bernhard

Pat Corson

Discussion

177

(4)

Part 4 How Will Good Child Care Services Be Delivered: Education System or Community Services?

Introduction

181

(3)

Education and Child Care: Confronting New Realities

184

(17)

Penny Milton

The Case for Community-Governed Child Care Services

201

(17)

Susan Prentice

How Should Child Care Be Provided?

218

(9)

Julie Mathien

The Need for Public Commitment and Coherent Policy

227

(7)

Jane Beach

Aboriginal Perspectives on Child Care

234

(17)

Margo Greenwood

Perry Shawana

Authors' Responses

235

(7)

Penny Milton

Rita Chudnovsky

Discussion

242

(5)

Part 5 What Family Policies Are Needed to Complement Universal Child Care?

Introduction

247

(4)

Family Policies and Families' Well-Being: An International Comparison

251

(24)

Anne H. Gauthier

Child Care Policy and Family Policy: Cross-National Examples of Integration and Inconsistency

275

(21)

Maureen Baker

Canadian Values and the Evolution of Child Care Policy

296

(5)

Kathy O'Hara

How the Composition and Level of Support for Families Affects Children

301

(14)

Shelley Phipps

Discussion

306

(5)

Part 6 Single Parents, Child Poverty, and Children at Risk: What Special Child Care Policies Are Needed?

Introduction

311

(4)

What Special Arrangements Are Necessary for Lone-Parent Families in a Universal Child Care Program?

315

(19)

Gordon Cleveland

Michael Krashinsky

Investments in Comprehensive Programming: Services for Children and Single-Parent Mothers on Welfare Pay for Themselves within One Year

334

(13)

Gina Browne

Joanne Roulston

Bonnie Ewart

Michael Schuster

Joey Edwardh

Louise Boily

The Needs of Aboriginal Canadians

347

(5)

Richard Budgell

Learning from Experience: Can We Check Old Assumptions and Categorical Thinking at the Door?

352

(6)

Donna S. Lero

Why Child Care Fees are Problematic

358

(14)

Michael Goldberg

Authors' Responses

362

(3)

Gordon Cleveland

Michael Krashinsky

Discussion

365

(4)

Part 7 Child Care Workers: What Qualifications, Pay, and Organizations Should They Have?

Introduction

369

(3)

Working with Young Children

372

(18)

Jane Bertrand

Thoughts on Child Care Workers

390

(4)

Annette LaGrange

Issues in the Professionalization of Child Care

394

(3)

Douglas Hyatt

The Need for a Well-Trained Child Care Workforce

397

(12)

Marta Juorio

Author's Response

403

(4)

Jane Bertrand

Discussion

407

(2)

Conclusions

409

Gordon Cleveland

Michael Krashinsky

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