Description: Today's tax credits, child-care benefits, and flex-time policies in the workplace constitute the greatest redistribution of wealth in America since the War on Poverty. Only this time, charges Elinor Burkett, the real winners are affluent parents and the real losers are the childless poor and middle class.

Reporting from the front lines -- where tempers are flaring, lawsuits are being filed, and childless workers, especially women, are fighting for their rights -- Burkett shows why Americans are on a demographic collision course between the growing numbers of mothers in the workforce and the swelling ranks of childless adults. Until recently, pro-family policies in government and industry have been the one sacred cow uniting both feminists and conservatives. With President Clinton's pending legislation barring discrimination against parents in the workplace, the stage is set for an explosive national debate on the rights of childless workers and the responsibilities of working parents. Armed with hard data and grassroots reporting, Burkett fires the first shot in the battle to come.

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