Early Years

Child Care: Children's advocates might be pushing for a universal system of child care in this country, but support for that idea is far from universal among parents, a new survey suggests.

According to "Necessary Compromises," released late last month by the New York City-based nonprofit research organization Public Agenda, a majority of the parents questioned—60 percent—said finding child care was their own responsibility, not the government's and not their employers'.

"[P] arents of young children endorse a variety of measures to improve child care when they are asked about them, but there is little outcry for action, little self-propelled demand for government to step...