Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989,
Discussion, "The Economics of Day Care”,
P129 |
...some
psychologists (said) essentially that industrial child-rearing is as good as
Mom.
Rector*
judged that research to be "the greatest insult to mothers that has ever
been put forward." In his own conversations with day-care center operators,
Rector found that--aside from those highly politicized--few would assert
anything like that.
*policy analyst for The Heritage Foundation
Category = Quality
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Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989,
Discussion, "The Economics of Day Care”,
p133 |
Reviewing the ranks of those supporting (pro-daycare legislation), Rector
pointed first to the day-care providers, who are eager for the money the
bill would give them. Child-development professionals, on the other hand
support (it) less for economic gain than for power. Such professionals can
control child-rearing more fully when the child-rearing is institutional
rather than parental.
Category = Politics
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Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989,
Discussion, "The Economics of Day Care”,
p133
|
Union
support for (pro-daycare legislation) held no mystery for Rector. Since
(some of these bills include) a provision for a quasi-teacher certificate
for day-care workers, a child-development associate degree, it appears that
the National Education Association (NEA) intends to elevate day care to the
status of an auxiliary to the public school system so that all of the many
female day-care workers can be unionized.
Category = Politics |
Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989,
Discussion, "The Economics of Day Care”,
p138
|
Rector
found it inconceivable that the parents of America would unite and march
down Pennsylvania Avenue for a day-care bill that would exclude (most)
children from any form of assistance. There simply was no constituent
pressure for this kind of a bill. Rather, the supporters of (pro-daycare
legislation) were motivated by an ideological vision of society requiring
day-care centers...
Category = Politics |
Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989,
Discussion, "The Economics of Day Care”,
p138
|
Rector
(testified before Congress in 1988) that there was no day-care crisis, nor a
shortage of day care. Belatedly, now even The Urban Institute has issued a
report finding no shortage of day care. The economic data on day care show
that the market is working quite well: for-profit centers such as Kindercare
and Gerbers operate with average vacancy rates of 25 percent. Still,
Parade* magazine persists in its illusory
reports of a chronic shortage of day care.
* A Sunday newspaper supplement in the
USA
that Mr. Rector characterized on page 133 as being “written at a comic-book
level”
Category = Economics, Politics |
