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Day care is more than a nursery school!

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The increase in labor force participation by women as well as the increase in single-parent families has stimulated the need for full-day child care in the United States. As a result, many nursery school programs have extended their hours of service. These extended child care programs are basically of two types.

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  1. Margaret A. King
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Margaret A. King is Associate Professor, School of Home Economics, and Director, Child Development Center, Ohio University, Athens, OH.

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King, M.A. Day care is more than a nursery school!. Early Childhood Educ J 17, 8–11 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01620160

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