Preface / Suzanne W. Helburn -- Child care, maternal employment, and public policy / Sandra L. Hofferth -- Defining and assessing early childhood program quality / Debby Cryer -- The Kellogg Child Development Center : high-quality child care / Lorna Kellogg -- Child care experiences and developmental outcomes / Margaret R. Burchinal -- Families and child care : divergent viewpoints / Susan D. Holloway and Bruce Fuller -- Regulating child care quality / William Gormley, Jr. -- Market constraints on child care quality / John R. Morris -- Child care workers : high demand, low wages / Marcy Whitebook -- Hiring a nanny : the limits of private solutions to public problems / Julia Wrigley -- Current trends in European early child care and education / Wolfgang Tietze and Debby Cryer -- Who should pay for the kids? / Paula England and Nancy Folbre -- Making child care "affordable" in the United States / Barbara R. Bergmann.