Organization and Significant Accounting Policies - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $)	0 Months Ended	12 Months Ended				0 Months Ended	1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended						0 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jan. 30, 2013	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Jan. 11, 2013	Jan. 11, 2013 Common Stock [Member]	Jan. 11, 2013 Common Stock [Member]	Dec. 31, 2013 Common Stock [Member]	Dec. 31, 2013 Operate Child Care and Early Education Centers [Member]	Dec. 31, 2013 Back-up Dependent Care [Member]	Dec. 31, 2013 Minimum [Member]	Dec. 31, 2013 Maximum [Member]	Dec. 31, 2013 Fair Value, Inputs, Level 2 [Member]	Jun. 19, 2013 Secondary Offering [Member]	Dec. 31, 2013 Revenue [Member] Customer	Dec. 31, 2012 Revenue [Member] Customer	Dec. 31, 2013 Accounts Receivable [Member] Customer	Dec. 31, 2012 Accounts Receivable [Member] Customer
Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Number of shares issued under public offering	11,600,000													9,800,000
Proceed from issuance of initial public offering	$ 233,300,000	$ 234,944,000
Payment of initial public offering costs	1,600,000	20,600,000
Common stock reverse split						1.9704	1.9704	1.9704
Common stock conversion ratio, Class L common stock into Class A common stock					35.1955
Common stock, authorized		475,000,000	14,500,000		475,000,000
Preferred stock, authorized		25,000,000	0		25,000,000
Offering cost incurred		141,827,000	123,373,000	92,938,000										600,000
Debt issuance, principal amount	890,000,000
Net foreign currency gains				835,000
Long Term Debt, Carrying Value		756,323,000	904,607,000										782,100,000
Long Term Debt, Fair Value													784,100,000
Concentration risk percentage															10.00%		10.00%
Number of Customer Generating more than 10%															0	0
Clients accounting for more than benchmark																	0	0
Maturity of highly liquid investments		Three months or less
Cash equivalent investments		0	0
Book overdrafts		0	0
Fair value for each reporting unit, period		10 years
Goodwill impairment losses		0	0	0
Impairment losses		0	400,000	400,000
Finite lived intangible assets, estimated useful life											1 year	17 years
Fixed asset impairment		800,000	300,000	800,000
Other long term assets, cost basis investment		$ 2,000,000
Acquisition interest rate		100.00%
Service contract length, minimum									3 years	1 year
Service contract length, maximum									10 years	3 years
Minimum preferred return rate per annum		10.00%