Changes in families and getting youngsters to the dentist

Bureau of the Census surveys for the mid-1990s, with projections into the early years of the next century, indicate a continuing increase in the numbers of single-parent families, grandparent supervised children, families with two employed parents and a wide variety of child care arrangements. Pediatric dentists increasingly will need to deal with juggled parental work schedules, unavailability of parents/guardians and any number of difficulties resulting from changed family structures in both traditional and nontraditional patient populations.