Julius Gari Melchers, “Mother and Child” via Art Institute of Chicago
2020 Vision
The Child Care Primary

How a crowded, female-heavy 2020 field could restart a vital national debate.

Published on: April 23, 2019
Sonya Michel is a professor emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park and author of Children’s Interests/Mothers’ Rights: The Shaping of America’s Child Care Policy (Yale University Press, 1999). She would like to thank fellow historian Sue Levine for alerting her to the Republicans’ parental leave proposal.
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