The Family Frontier
Elliot HaspelAnalysis, future-casting, and philosophizing on child care & family policy from Elliot Haspel
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Federal Child Care Policy Was Never Designed for This
Notes: Hey, I’m writing a new book! Much more to come on The Age of Care, and I’ll have some sneak peeks for paid subscribers, but I’m very excited to share this journey with y’all. Also, I have a few pieces out recently — a co-authored art...
The Trump Stay-At-Home-Parent Child Care Proposal: It’s a Trap!
Update, 9/8/26: I went on FoxNews’ streaming show yesterday to talk about the proposal, you can see that clip here.
By now, you’ve likely seen the New York Times scoop that the Trump administration is preparing a rule that would allow fede...
The Wisdom of Urie Bronfenbrenner, Redux
Last May, I wrote a Family Frontier piece on the eminent developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, his “ecological systems theory” of child development, and an old talk of his I found from 1976. (If you’re not familiar with Bronfenbre...
Unpacking A New Paper on “Big Daycare”
If you follow my work, you know that I’ve done quite a bit of investigating and writing on the question of investor-backed for-profit child care chains, including those owned by private equity firms. Today, the first significant academic re...
Whatever Happened to Predictability?
Note: For those of you intrigued by my post last week about the ECE vs. K-12 funding gap, I’ve since learned that the good people at the Center for Early Learning Funding Equity have a whole research initiative around this gap — called the...
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