Friendly Intruders: Childcare Professionals and Family Life

<p><div>The governments of many industrialized societies have developed extensive childcare facilities and services to meet the needs of young children and their working parents, but no such program on a national scale has yet evolve in the United Staes. Some who oppose federal aid or control believe that mothers should remain at home with their preschool children rather than turn them over to childcare professionals--the "friendly intruders" of the titels--and that any other policy is a threat to the moral climate and stability of family life. However, since the demand for childcare services is very great, and since Congress has previously passed relevant legislation (which was vetoed by President Nixon), the issue of childcare will surely rise again soon.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>In this study, based upon direct observation of a local childcare program in California, the author examines several pof the practical policy issues concerning childcare which have not yet been resolved. Who will control such programs in the future, public school systems or others? Which agencies or institutions will certify the competence of childcare personnel? To what extent will parents contribute to the content of the programs provided for their young children?</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>A major part of Professor Joffe's study is concerned with the emerging professionalism of early childhood educators. In a pattern now understood to be classic, such persons seek status and recognition through education, certification, and membership in professional associations. However, what happens when parents and professional disagree about values, behavioral norms, and the educational content of a nursery school program? Who is the "expert" in such a confrontation? The author observed profoundly different orientations to childcare not only between professionals and parents, but also among different groups of parents, especially along racial and class lines; how can professionals accommodate such differences?</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The author's conclusions emerge from careful study of day-by-day encounters between staff, parents and supervisors, giving to her book a sense of immediacy and well-focused understanding that is rarely achieved in academic studies. Parents, educators and policy analysts concerned with the subject will find it indispensable.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.</div></p>

Politics & Social Sciences

Joffe, Carole

Sociology

University of California Press

Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America

<p><p>It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access to necessary health care. And yet it is no surprise that in many places throughout the United States, getting an abortion can be a monumental challenge. Anti-choice politicians and activists have worked tirelessly to impose needless restrictions on this straightforward medical procedure that, at best, delay it and, at worst, create medical risks and deny women their constitutionally protected right to choose.&nbsp;</p> <p><i>Obstacle Course</i> tells the story of abortion in America, capturing a disturbing reality of insurmountable barriers people face when trying to exercise their legal rights to medical services. Authors David S. Cohen and Carole Joffe lay bare the often arduous and unnecessarily burdensome process of terminating a pregnancy: the sabotaged decision-making, clinics in remote locations, insurance bans, harassing protesters, forced ultrasounds and dishonest medical information, arbitrary waiting periods, and unjustified procedure limitations.<br /> &nbsp;<br /> Based on patients' stories as well as interviews with abortion providers and allies from every state in the country,&nbsp;<i>Obstacle Course</i> reveals the unstoppable determination required of women in the pursuit of reproductive autonomy as well as the incredible commitment of abortion providers. Without the efforts of an unheralded army of medical professionals, clinic administrators, counselors, activists, and volunteers, what is a legal right would be meaningless for the almost one million people per year who get abortions. There is a better way--treating abortion like any other form of health care--but the United States is a long way from that ideal.&nbsp;</p> <br /> <br /> &nbsp;</p>

Cohen, David S.

Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us

<b>Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access</b><br><br>More than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages, reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe shows how a pervasive stigma—cultivated by the religious right—operates to maintain barriers to access by shaming women and marginalizing abortion providers. Through compelling testimony from doctors, health-care workers, and patients, Joffe reports the lived experiences behind the polemics, while also offering hope for a more compassionate standard of women’s health care.

Beacon Press

After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion

<p>Traces a backlash against abortion on the part of mainstream medicine, showing how doctors have failed to provide abortion services and training even though they are legal, and profiles doctors who offer safe abortions at risk to their own careers.</p>

Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe V. Wade

Beacon Pr

<p>Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access  More than thirty-five years after women won the right to legal abortion, most people do not realize how inaccessible it has become. In these pages, reproductive-health researcher Carole Joffe shows how a pervasive stigmacultivated by the religious rightoperates to maintain barriers to access by shaming women and marginalizing abortion providers. Through compelling testimony from doctors, health-care workers, and patients, Joffe reports the lived experiences behind the polemics, while also offering hope for a more compassionate standard of women’s health care. From the Trade Paperback edition.</p>

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers (Health, Society and Policy Series)

Temple Univ Pr

Takes us from the private aspects of sexuality into the arena of public policy and state regulation.

The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers (Health Society And Policy)

Social Sciences

Temple University Press

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Friendly Intruders: Childcare Professionals and Family Life

Friendly Intruders: Childcare Professionals and Family Life

Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America

Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us

After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion

Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe V. Wade

Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us

The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers (Health, Society and Policy Series)

The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family Planning Workers (Health Society And Policy)