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The city of Oakland in the State of California, USA, extending along the mainland side of San Francisco Bay, opposite the Golden Gate and the cosmopolitan metropolis of San Francisco, is an urban community of some 360,000 persons. Oakland is a city of many diverse ethnic, language and socioeconomic groups, a significant number of working mothers and a growing population of single parent households.
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Benas, E.A. (1982). How One City got Parents Involved. In: Nir-Janiv, N., Spodek, B., Steg, D., Spencer, M., Wagemaker, P. (eds) Early Childhood Education. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3479-8_13
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