Current child Care Strategies of Twenty-Five states and Summary Recommendations for Future Child Care Services in Utah based on Recommendations from the Governor\u27s Task Force on Child Care

Social and employment changes have occurred in the United States over the past twenty years that have had a drastic impact on the traditional American family. Americans now live in an era of inflation and economic change in which a second family income is often a necessity just to maintain.an adequate standard of living. Mothers\u27 are no longer waiting until their youngest child enters elementary school to enter or re-enter the labor force. By 1985, 57% of mothers\u27 of children under the age of six were in the labor force, whereas in 1950, only 12% were employed (Department of Labor, 1988)