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Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989, Introduction, by Bryce
Christensen, director of The Rockford Institute Center on the Family in
America,
p vii
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Against the claims made by
day-care advocates, Dr. Westman* concluded that "full-time day care, no
matter how heavily funded, is not in the interests of young children, their
parents, or society, because it is a response to the employment of
parents...not to the needs of the children nor of the parents." "Children
need the full range of spontaneous and intuitive interaction with adults who
truly love them enough to sacrifice for them," he said, holding out little
hope that day-care workers could provide such love.
* Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of
Wisconsin
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Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989, Introduction, by Bryce
Christensen, director of The Rockford Institute Center on the Family in
America,
p xii |
Two of the greatest writers of this
century--Aldous Huxley and Yevgeny Zamyatin--have depicted collectivized
child care as part of a dehumanizing future.
(See Daycare
in Literature)
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Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989
"The Risks of Day Care For Children, Parents, and Society”
Jack C. Westman, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison,
Wisconsin, p7 |
The advocates of
institutional day care represent three constituencies*:
1) employed parents, 2) day-care child-development specialists, and 3) the
day-care system itself.
Notably absent is a constituency representing the interests of children.
* constituencies = A body of citizens
entitled to elect a representative to a legislature or other public body
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Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989
"The Risks of Day Care For Children,
Parents, and Society”
Jack C. Westman, M.D.
p23 |
...discerning the effect of day care on
children is not easy.
A child regarded as well-adjusted in a day-care center is one who does not
demonstrate distressful behavior on parental separation...
The fact that crying on leaving and returning to a parent disappears often
is interpreted as evidence that a child has adjusted well to day care. In
fact, it may well be evidence that the child has adapted to stressful
situations by entering a stage in which stress is masked or that the child
has adapted by investing less in the parent. Unfortunately, the adverse
effects of this kind of early life experience may not be evident in more
overt ways for years.
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