ABSTRACT
Striking similarities in history, market, and government policy characterize day-care arrangements in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. If the authors of these chapters portray their nations accurately there are equally striking similarities in the political orientation of the social scientists who study day care in three of the world’s great English-speaking nations. My intent here is to outline the similarities in day-care tradition and policy across the three countries and to present a modest defense of traditional, which is to say, current government policy.
