icy Review (Spring 19881, Heritage Foundation,
214 Massachusetts Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C.
20002.
A rising number of children in the United States are being raised hired workers, rather than by parents or family. A 1984 Census Bureau study reported that eight percent of working mothers rear their children them- selves, 40 percent give them to relatives during the day, and 52 percent hire others to tend their offspring.
However, according to Zinsmeister, a free-lance writer and demogra- pher,...