---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1795"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1795"
heading: "Parent partnerships with child development centers"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1795"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 88 — Military Family Programs and Military Child Care"
  - "Subchapter II — Military Child Care"
---

# §1795. Parent partnerships with child development centers

- (a) **Parent Boards.—** The Secretary of Defense shall require that there be established at each [military child development center](/usc/10/1800.md?p=1) a board of [parents](/usc/10/1482a.md?p=c-3), to be composed of [parents](/usc/10/1482a.md?p=c-3) of children attending the center. The board shall meet periodically with staff of the center and the commander of the [installation](/usc/10/2920.md?p=h-5) served by the center for the purpose of discussing problems and concerns. The board, together with the staff of the center, shall be responsible for coordinating the [parent](/usc/10/1482a.md?p=c-3) participation program described in [subsection (b)](#b).
- (b) **Parent Participation Programs.—** The Secretary of Defense shall require the establishment of a [parent](/usc/10/1482a.md?p=c-3) participation program at each [military child development center](/usc/10/1800.md?p=1). As part of such program, the Secretary of Defense may establish fees for attendance of children at such a center, in the case of [parents](/usc/10/1482a.md?p=c-3) who participate in the [parent](/usc/10/1482a.md?p=c-3) participation program at that center, at [rates](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) lower than the [rates](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) that otherwise apply.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title V, § 568(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 334.)