@inbook{10.7758/9781610444248.12,
 ISBN = {9780871546265},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610444248.12},
 abstract = {Child care and child rearing may still be viewed as primarily the responsibility of families, but the conventional wisdom that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century regarding mothers’ exclusive responsibility for the care and education of their preschool-age children at home has largely disappeared. In effect, the middle- and late-nineteenth-century triangle of family, economy, and education that led to the growth of the public education system in the United States is now being played out in another series of role disputes. Just as the public schools expanded in large part in the nineteenth century by assuming tasks that the family no},
 author = {Sheila B. Kamerman and Jane Waldfogel},
 booktitle = {Limits of Market Organization, The},
 pages = {185--212},
 publisher = {Russell Sage Foundation},
 title = {EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE},
 year = {2005}
}