Child care patterns and preferences in urban peninsular Malaysia.

Malaysia has undergone tremendous social change in the past two decades and is indeed changing rapidly today. Aside from the changes in the physical appearance of its cities and countryside some for the better and some for the worse, there has occurred also phenomenal change of a social nature in Malaysian society. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the large numbers of people who today flock to urban centres in search of education, livelihood and a better life. In this large area of rapid social change, many phenomenon occur that are not only undesirable but go unnoticed until it is too late for them to be remedied.