Father provide slightly less child care than grandparents, who serve as the primary caregivers for about 20 percent of the 11.3 million preschool children with employed mothers.
Source:Families Help Care for Half of U.S. Preschoolers, Census Says
Children who attend day care may be less likely to suffer from asthma and wheezing than their stay-at-home peers, a new study reports.
The architect David Rockwell has designed novel playgrounds for New York City that replace traditional fixed structures like monkey bars and swings with custom shaped loose parts that children can move around.
Source:An Invitation to Child?s Play: Big Blocks and Wheelbarrows
In the largest successful organizing drive in New York City in half a century, 28,000 child care providers will join the city’s teachers’ union as the result of an overwhelmingly pro-union vote.
A South Bronx day care center being investigated by the city for financial improprieties will lose its city financing next week and have to close, officials said Wednesday.
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