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14 Alaska B. Rag 1 (1990)

handle is hein.barjournals/askabar0014 and id is 1 raw text is: *cirds Be judge I * Opt out or you're in lolta .--: ge 17 Tales of real men, women and children Staying at home not the issue, day care is BY MICKALE CARTER According to recent statistics, 54.6 percent of the Anchorage workforce is women, more than any other city in the United States. Fairbanks with 50.6 percent came in eighth. One of the spin-offs of more work- ing women is that more children than ever before in the history of the U. S. are being cared for by child care facilities. As a cons. .,ence, one of the singularly naust important issues with which we must dealin the 1990's is pre-school child care. We are rapidly becoming a society whose children are being raised by day care providers. Heretofore the debate on this issue has focused on whether women should stay in the home and care for their children rather than seek employment out- side the home. Whetherit is taore noble for women to stay at home than pursue extra income or a career, or both, is really not the issue. The reality of the situa- tion is that women'are working out- side the home. Children are being sent to day care facilities. We no longer can afford the luxury of hop- ing that by some miracle the needs of our nation's children will be met. The time has come for us to take a cold hard look at the day care situation. The Present Situation inAnch- orage Based upon information gathered by Mia Oxley, executive director of the Child Care Connection, a non- profit child care referral organiza- tion, there are 65 child care centers in Anchorage. There are an additional 85 children affiliated with Camp Fire, and another 130 licenced homes offer care. The cost in Anchorage for day care for one child is between$3,000-$5,000 per year; $400 per child per month in FAIRBA8NKS FANTPISIES cc) lisi IMAaw. ANWMfl VDUA, N-OtO, VAJf AWGUE rlAI IS Coupt of ETA PLAINlIFFS 91EgDrVo H'S' 1*15 IS! A, LS6IIMTC//I AMA~ 0?r tIaq~JiY )N AN4 AN-?OiK M-01'S REARING I OON'r KNOW... SILA V51 I it AO tS %.ST 047 A14N MA-IsP.SGNAANI AVAIN/ AM ' rMI%5II6 SOM1110t6 upUKP. W Sharpy and Lefty pursue real wisdom By LUGNUTT McDUNKEL. Eso. This is a article about girls. Yeah. I knows about women, 'cause us guys- that's Sharpy and Lefty and me-we talk at the Two Street Bar & Grill. Anyway, we got this trial comin' up. It's about some dame and her husband. He wants to see the kids and she's makin' up some story. So we had to think about witnesses and evidence and beer. We figured we knew about girls but maybe we oughta read a book about trials. 'Cause sometimes, women are witnesses in trials, we figure. So we tossed Lefty's coin-it's always Lefty's coin-and I lost two out of three. So I had to read some 'books and write a trial brief. Sharpy said he'd find out whata trial brief is. So I look for a book about dames on the stand. I found the library, where this good-lookin' girl showed me a card catalogwith all these little draw- ers and names of books. I did not find nothin' about cars, but there was lotsa other good stuff. Guys, I found this book for real men. There is this book in the library- -well, it's like a lot of books, and it's called Am Jur Trials. If you wanna look for it, it's got this black and blue cover. It's over on the shelf. Continued on page 15 a center, and $360 per month per The Situation as of April 1, that when the youngest child in the child in a home. According to Oxley, 1990 'household reaches age three, the moth- th quality of child care in Anchor- On April 1, 1990, the Federal Fan- er, in order to maintain her welfare age has improved over the last 10 ily Support Act of 1988 will go into benefits, must begin some sort of job years; there are now fewer really bad affect. The act provides for manda- training. and more really good facilities, she tory job training of women who says. There continues to be a shor- receive welfare. The act provides Continued on page 14 tage of infant evening and weekend care providers. .. . Sun rises 111 '93 Alaska Bar Association P.O. Box 100279 Anchorage, Alaska 99510 Non-Profit Organzation U.S. Postage Paid, Penilt No. 401 Anchorage, Alaska As the Bar Rag went to press, we learned that HB 120, the Bar Association sunset bill, passed out of the Senate on Jan. 17 and is on its way to the governor for signature. The Board of Governors, like other state boards and commis- sions, is reviewed by the Alaska Legislature every four years to determine whether it is fulfilling its responsibilities and should con- tinuein operation. HB 120 extends the board until 1993. This bill passed the House dur- ing the 1989 legislative session, but did not make it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. A hearing was held on HB 120 by the committee in Novembr, 1989. Early this year, the committee passed out the bill and it was placed on tl,e ,ienate's consent calendar.

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