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Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989,
Discussion, "The Economics of Day Care”,
p131 |
Insurance groups constitute the third group of advocates for (pro-daycare
legislation). Walker* explained that insurance
companies welcome Federal standards because such standards reduced the
policing costs of insuring (daycare) centers. Insurance underwriters can
reduce their companies' fiscal responsibilities by including in their
contracts a provision stating that they will not be liable for any mishap
that occurs in a center in violation of Federal standards.
*assistant professor of economics at Loyola University (New Orleans, LA)
Category = Economics, Politics |
Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989,
Discussion, "The Economics of Day Care”,
p131-132 |
Walker
conjectured that these parents (who support pro-daycare legislation) might
not favor (it) if they knew that its probable outcome would be a decline,
not an improvement in day care, since (it) would reduce all the market
mechanism that help to ensure quality.
Parents may also be misguided in their support...in that they are
misinformed about the cost. When a service is paid for out of general tax
funds, users of that service often fall into "fiscal illusion," not knowing
the true cost of the service. If parents had to pay for this (daycare)
service on the market, perhaps they would not demand it at the price paid
indirectly through government.
Category = Politics |
Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989,
Discussion, "The Economics of Day Care”,
p139 |
...(Mary) Kohler* ventured that the recent spate of criticism of public
education has dampened public desire to place children in day care. At the
same time that Americans are learning that the public schools are not very
good, day-care advocates are asking them to put more preschoolers in similar
circumstances.
Windway Capital Corporation, Sheboygan WI
Category = Quality |
Day Care
Child Psychology & Adult Economics
Edited by Bryce Christensen
©1989,
Discussion, "The Economics of Day Care”,
p142 |
Returning to the question of media, Christensen*invoked
the work of Christopher Lasch, who discusses how since news has become a
commodity, those who profit by it try to produce as much as possible. The
natural consequence among the media is an unhealthy appetite for novelty and
strangeness. In media coverage of day care, this predictably means that
reporters will gravitate toward those proposing something new [putting
children into the care of experts], not toward those advocating something
old [allowing parents to care for their own children].
*director of The Rockford Institute Center on the Family in
America
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