despite the problems identified in the hcp the quality of care is likely to be higher than that received by children whose mothers combine work and care at home leroy et al on the demand side longterm investments in human capacities are constrained by the lower quality care that children receive as a result in terms of policythe goal would be to scale up programmes such as hcp so that women s care responsibilities no longer pose a potential squeeze on time entailing a movement towards a more gender egalitarian high road strategy of social reproduction