Did you know that...nearly 40 per cent of babies and toddlers spend 35 or more hours each week in child care? The rate of triplets and higher-order multiple births has increased 400 per cent in the past 20 years? 13 per cent of all babies under age 1 are uninsured? 77 per cent of all the children who died from abuse or neglect in 2001 were younger than 4? Only 3 per cent of the eligible population receive Early Head Start services? Too often the lack of data specific to the first 3 years of life allows our youngest citizens to be overlooked in policy discussions. "America's Babies" was developed to allow policy makers to better understand how biological, environmental, and family conditions interact to influence the lifetime development of infants and toddlers. Writers will find the detailed statistics, research, and compelling data they need to back up assertions. And students and practitioners will benefit from the book's overviews of federal programs, as well as the demographic context for child development and family life in the United States.
- ISBN10 0943657660
- ISBN13 9780943657660
- Publish Date 21 January 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, & Families
- Format Paperback
- Pages 112
- Language English