Table of Contents:
  • Continuity and discontinuity of experience : an intervention perspective / Donald L. Peters and Susan Kontos
  • Sources of stability and change in early childhood / Kathryn E. Hood and Susan M. McHale
  • Consistency and stability in the family microsystem environment / Rob Palkovitz
  • Continuity between home and family day care : caregivers' and mothers' perceptions and children's social experience / Florence Long and Laurie Garduque
  • Attitudinal context of family-day care relationships / Susan Kontos
  • Managing relations with parents : research notes on the teacher's role / Douglas R. Powell and Andrew J. Stremmel
  • Some aspects of the relationships between family structure and child language development in three types of day care / Hillel Goelman and Alan Pence
  • Effects of subsidized, private, and unregulated child care on family functions / Karen Hill-Scott
  • Moving from consistency to congruence in child care policy : the state's role / Willa Pettygrove
  • Macrosystem continuity, congruity, and stability : Costa Rica as a case example / Maria Chavarria
  • Continuity and discontinuity of experience : summary and implications for research / Susan Kontos and Donald L. Peters.