Almost half of preschoolers are cared for by relatives while their mothers work. Read the Census Department's report detailing child care arrangements for preschoolers as well as an earlier report discussing overall family expenditures for child care.

The Child Care Bureau offers a comprehensive look at child care issues. Learn about White House initiatives, state profiles and more.

This Yale University report offers hard hitting solutions to the quality crisis in early care and education. Written by Sharon L. Kagan and Nancy E. Cohen, Not by Chance presents a definitive answer to the problems of early care and education based on research and input from the foremost early childhood experts. The report lays out a comprehensive plan for further professionalizing early care and education on a national level, supported by detailed action strategies that can be tailored to local and state settings.

Children Now's report Right Time, Right Place: Managed Care and Early Childhood Development offers strategies to help health care plans create an effective system for delivering early childhood development services in a managed care setting.

The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a policy statement in December 1997 summarizing the benefits of breastfeeding to infants, mothers, and the nation as a whole.

Find out what parents believe about early child development and brain development, where they go for the latest information, and what barriers prevent them from getting what they need in this national poll released by ZERO TO THREE.

The I Am Your Child campaign has a wealth of resources for parents who want to learn more about their child's development in the early years, including a summary of findings from brain development, and how it affects our everyday lives.

This national campaign offers tips and brochures for making sure that every child in America can read independently by the end of third grade. Find a number of resources on reading improvement and recent additions to the Helping Your Child series.

This comprehensive 400-page report by the National Research Council asserts that children need language-rich preschool opportunities and teachers need better preparation and support to guide students through the complex mix of skills that go into learning to read. Read the press release or order a copy.

Allan Shedlin, Jr. offers thoughts on what childhood memories, beginning with infancy, mean for our children's future.