It is no secret that R&B singer Ciara loves being a mother.
Everyone's child is good until you have to take care of them for more than an hour...
(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — For nearly a decade, after the economy forced her out of a corporate job, Carol Ann George-Roach took care of other people’s children. She took pride in shaping young minds and sending them off to kindergarten prepared to learn. But not even child care, George-Roach found, was exempt from Georgia’s fragile […]
(Chicago Tribune) — It was a warm and sunny day outside, but Xavier Parker, 10, was deep into a computer game at Thurgood Marshall Public Library when his father walked in and told the boy he was about to go to a store. “Stay in here,” Xavier’s father, Jimmy Giles, said, leaving the boy in charge […]
(WSJ) — There’s good news for New York’s 200,000 nannies. A reconciliation deal between state lawmakers and Gov. David Paterson will award new rights to domestic workers, making New York the first state in the U.S. to protect household employees. The compromise legislation, which is expected to face final votes by Thurdsay, sets a 40-hour […]
(NYT) — In a city of secret economies, few are as vital to the life of New York as the business of nannies, the legions of women who emancipate high-powered professionals and less glamorous working parents from the duties of daily child care. Those nannies, as well as other domestic workers who make possible the […]
It's better to be safe than sorry when it comes to day care.