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Quotes from books about daycare -
1980-1984,
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The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983, p 140 |
Government day care programs are very expensive to run, especially infant
care programs, where there must be a high ratio of adults to babies. Some
countries, like the USSR*, which vigorously promoted day care for infants,
have backed off from that position, realizing that home care is cheaper. In
Czechoslovakia, the "Russian system" of Monday-to-Friday round-the-clock day
care fell into disrepute when damaging psychological effects were
discovered...
*USSR - The former Soviet Union
Category =
Caregiver, Economics, Politics, Quality |
The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983,
p 140-141 |
Day care in the U.S. is expensive, especially infant care, and it is no less
expensive when the government picks up the bill.
(Yet, despite millions of dollars spent), all the combined federal programs
did not come close to achieving their modest goal of providing day care for
low-income families. Now much of the cost of child care has been shifted to
state governments, but the high cost remains the same.
Category =
Caregiver, Economics, Politics |
The Day Care Decision
What's Best for You and Your Child
by William & Wendy Dreskin,
© 1983,
p
141-142 |
Full-time day care, no matter how heavily funded,
is not an answer, because it comes from looking at only half the problem.
A recent government report on day care summarized the problems of the
working mother and her family without once
mentioning the subject of emotional needs of children or the possibility of
a working mother wanting to spend more time with her child. Of
course, the possibility that early separation from parents for forty or
fifty hours a week might have a harmful effect on children was not even
hinted at. These omissions say a great deal about the (U.S. Government's)
perspective on the problem....
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02/27/2008
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