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, p25 |
Conservatives object to
publicly funded day care on two general grounds. First, they believe that
the best day-care provider is a mother at home. To relieve her of this
traditional duty is demoralizing to her, to her children and to society, in
this view. Second is the question of fairness. Tax-supported day care is
seen as obliging mothers who prefer to care for their own children to pay
for the care of children of often more prosperous women...
Category = Politics
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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., p26 |
In Czechoslovakia following World War II, the
extensive group care of young children was arranged to permit virtual full
employment of men and women. Because of the resulting social problems, this
practice was reversed by the Family Code of 1964...
(See History of Daycare -
Former Soviet Union)
Category = History
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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, p35 |
Optimal development in childhood is related to
future productivity in the labor market. Unfortunately, this leads to the
conclusion in the minds of some that professional child-rearing (daycare) is
better than parenting. Consequently, someone must
state the obvious: generally speaking, parenting is the best way of insuring
optimal development in early life--children need parents.
Category = Development
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Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989
"Discussion for The Risks of Day Care"
p44 |
Surveying the child-care
industry, (Burton) White* pronounced it "a
total disaster area," with "no feasible way of turning it into a model
industry."
Consequently, most families will find only "pretty poor substitutes" for
parental care outside the home.
*Center for Parent
Education, Newton, MA
Category = Quality
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Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989
"Discussion for The Risks of Day Care"
p44 |
(Burton) White complained of the
difficulty of conducting an intelligent discussion of the day-care question.
Media reporters accept the most dubious pronouncements on "quality" day
care…
Clear thinking is further inhibited by the "extremely strong emotions, most
especially guilt," evoked by the question of child care. "When you are
overwhelmed by guilt, you don't tend to think very clearly or debate
fairly."
Category = Politics |
