Child Care Connection

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s revised proposal for the next city budget slashes vital programs for needy children. That is no way to balance a budget.

What can be done when the nanny mistakenly assumes she’s a cook, too?

According to complaints filed in federal court in Manhattan this week, the defendants collaborated to send drugs like Ecstasy, Percocet, Viagra and Xanax to various parts of the country.

Three adults were killed at a home that also serves as a day care center in a suburb of Minneapolis, and a nearby college was locked down as the police searched for a suspect who fled on a bicycle.

City Room blog; Belmont Park racetrack in Nassau County, NY, has a day care center for the children of backstretch workers; Anna House, as the center is called, opened in 2003, and has become a second home to 70 children between the ages of 6 weeks and 6 years. Photo

Why do some New York nannies earn more than doctors? Faulty economics (for starters), but also because they can groom horses and speak Mandarin.

Tara Parker-Pope Well column examines the implications of study that found that men take less pleasure in child care than women. Drawing

Dentists nationwide are seeing more preschoolers at all income levels with 6 to 10 cavities or more.

Advocates are concerned that cuts to the city’s child care and after-school programs could result in 47,000 children losing access to those services.

Maybe it is time to recognize that law alone is not enough to effect social change.