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Who Will Rock the Cradle? ,
Edited by Phyllis Schlafly, ©1989, Page 160-161 |
Why we have to debate this subject is really
peculiar, because it is not even vaguely conceivable that we could
provide daycare centers all across the country which could replace the
energies and commitment and attention and love and sacrifice which mothers
are willing to make for their own children. You can’t
pay for that. There’s no possible way to reproduce it.
It’s not a matter of whether you could pay to have enough daycare centers
built or hire enough people (and they would be mostly women) for the daycare
centers. That isn’t the issue. If that could be done, it would be
extraordinarily expensive. It would also probably be completely unsuccessful
because mothers give far more than any routinized official bureaucracy could
possibly offer. As we would pay more and more for daycare, the conditions
would become worse and worse…
“Child Care in a Gender-Neutral Society” by George Gilder,
economist
Category = Caregiver, Economics,
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Who Will Rock the Cradle? ,
Edited by Phyllis Schlafly, ©1989, Page 164 |
But it is a total
illusion that any such “quality” daycare could be created across the whole
nation of the United States. It’s a completely
quixotic*, crazy idea that the kinds of commitments which women make for
their own children can be reproduced in large numbers of public centers.
* Idealistic to an impractical degree, from Don Quixote, hero
of the novel from the early 1600's, Don Quixote De La Mancha, by
Cervantes
“Child Care in a Gender-Neutral Society” by George Gilder,
economist
Category = Caregiver, Quality |
Who Will Rock the Cradle?
Edited by Phyllis Schlafly,
©1989, Page 192-193 |
It is hard for me to believe that a civilized
society such as ours treats millions of children the way we do. Child care
in the United States is shocking.
The trauma being inflicted on our children is sin of the worst kind, for
millions are doomed to a life of suffering and will never become what they
might have been. Have you ever been in a daycare center and watched those
babies lie there and cry, seeing nothing but empty emotionless faces? It is
terrible. I can’t stand it—I don’t go there very often. It upsets me too
much.
“Children—Our Greatest Resource" by Harold M. Voth, M.D.
Category = Quality |
Who Will Rock the Cradle? ,
Edited by Phyllis Schlafly, ©1989, Page 205 |
There is an underlying premise to much of this
debate: that it is both inevitable and desirable that, within a few years,
some 80 to 90 percent of two-year-olds will be raised in daycare centers. I
don’t believe this is either inevitable or desirable, and most Americans
would agree. We need a more humane model for helping families with young
children meet their needs and for helping women to integrate their
careers and motherhood. That model would be rooted in parental choice,
not in a one-dimensional policy of subsidizing the use of daycare centers.
“Myths and Facts About Families and Daycare" by Robert Rector
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