A Community Case Study on the Crisis in Jewish Child Care


 

Publication Date: March 1978

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Paul Steinfeld

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Jewish Identification; Social Services; Law

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The Wilder vs. Sugarman legal challenge to government-subsidized child care under voluntary sectarian auspices is supported by civil libertarians and many social workers but poses a serious threat to the quality of child-care and treatment, and parental rights to safeguard the Jewish identity of their children.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.54 no.3, Spring 1978.