Download or read book The Erosion of Childhood written by Valerie Polakow and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can child care be structured to protect both the interests of children and the rights of women? Must children suffer the "loss" of their childhood through institutional care? Polakow uses her observations of pre-school centers-including profit-run, federally funded, community, and Montessori institutions-to open the "windows of daycare."