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Congregation-Based Child Care's Long History
May 12, 2003
"Child care is a loving and nurturing field, but it is also a business. You can do both successfully without compromising either."
�"Gigi Schweikert from her book, Teacher Tips
CONGREGATION-BASED CHILD
CARE'S LONG HISTORY
The first known child care facility in the United States appears to be a congregation-based
program. This according to Mary Bogle, writing in Sacred Places,
Civic Purposes: Should Government Help Faith-Based Charity? edited by
E.J. Dionne, Jr. and Ming Hsu Chen (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press,
2001). Bogle reports that a group of religiously motivated Quaker women
organized a nursery school in 1798 "as part of the Philadelphia House of
Industry, which sought to counteract the breakup of families by offering poor
women a way to support themselves and keep their children with them."
To follow developments in the congregation-based child care arena, check out Exhange's Strategic Partner, the Ecumenical Child Care Network, at http://www.ccie.com/ECEorgs/index.php.
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