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Within the last dozen years there has been a monumental shift in the child care industry: the majority of early childhood classrooms are no longer located in churches, synagogues, and mosques. This is not a religious message, nor a criticism. I use it only to remind us of the beginnings of the relatively new Early Care and Education industry, harkening back to the early 1960s.Many of the early child care programs were a part of the shifting of social mores that occurred in the 1960s and ‘70s. New attention was being paid to the poor living in America, and the need to better support these families. Head Start was founded and served as a beacon to others in the early childhood field. The early beginnings of feminism were working their way into the fabric of the country. Women now wanted to work outside the home and their children needed child care. In response to these conditions, many of us took up the cause for Day Care for All. Since it was more a cause than a business, programs and centers responded with social programs; one of the earliest of these was child care. Human services organizations, places of worship, Community ...