Anganwadi centres also provide daily pre-school child care and education, as well as keeping a dozen-odd registers recording everything from children's weights to financial accounts.

ECONOMIST: Child malnutrition in India

Previously, all Iowan sex offenders who had abused children were barred from living within 2, 000 feet of a school or child-care centre.

ECONOMIST: Sex laws

She wants to guarantee access to pre-school education, and create new child-care schemes.

ECONOMIST: Chile's new president promises continuity and change

We need low-cost higher education and even lower-cost child care and pre-school.

FORBES: Whatever Happened To Health Care Reform?

She argues for federal support for child care and after-school care, and control over flex-time for employees whose long hours usually come at the expense, emotionally and financially, of their families.

CNN: Women gaining political power

The achievement gaps we see in elementary school and beyond begin before children enter kindergarten--the quality of child care and educational settings in the years preceding matter.

FORBES: U.S. Rep. George Miller

Kerrthana, 14, interviewed a school friend and a teacher about the pros and cons of children attending child-care provisions from a very early age, so their parents could continue working.

BBC: December's practice News Day