Children and families make up the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in the United States. While many Americans tend to picture the homeless as armies of men and women pushing shopping carts through city streets and sleeping in subway tunnels, in cast-off boxes, and on heating grates, the new face of homelessness more accurately includes an increasing number of children and their families. [Source: Encyclopedia of Homelessness; Child Care]
child care
child care at work
child community care
child day care
childminding
children's services
concepts
family influences and involvement
foster care
health services
holiday play schemes
homeless lifestyle
human development
infant care
kinship care
motherhood and family
mothering
nanny services
nurseries
playgroups
registered childcare
residential child care
school nursing services
social care
social policy
special and vulnerable groups
work, family, and personal life
wraparound childcare