"The authors, all eminent behavioral scientists, are a virtual United Nations of child-care experts. Their uniformly high-quality contributions are dense with informative material....the commentaries provide an unusual level of integration for an edited volume."—Contemporary Psychology"...a timely book that should appeal to a wide audience, including researchers in the day care field, developmentalists, social scientists, and educators with an interest in young children, cross-cultural issues, and social policy, and the educated lay person who wants to learn more about child care."—Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography