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Quotes from books about
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Children First
What our society must do--and is not doing--for our children
today
by Penelope Leach ©1994
PART THREE: Children and Parents
Chapter 12: New Approaches to Practical Parenting, P246 |
Reality (of workplace nurseries) is usually a
mother taking a baby or toddler twice daily on a packed commuter train and
then a bus to a daycare center that is indeed sponsored by her company but
is probably housed in a lower-rental back street. If it is close enough for
lunch-break visits, reality is forgoing lunch-hour shopping for the evening
meal and facing saying goodbye an extra time. Most existing workplace
nurseries get no daytime visits from parents unless staff summon them in an
emergency.
Category = Economics |
Children First
What our society must do--and is not doing--for our children
today
by Penelope Leach ©1994, P246 |
There is a seldom spoken political
reality that has to be faced, too. A workplace nursery means that a child's
daycare place depends on a parent's employment. While that dependence
certainly contributes to what management pamphlets call "work-force
loyalty", it could act--as company housing notoriously does--to reduce
parental choice and job mobility and even contribute to exploitation*.
*exploitation -
an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly).
Category = Economics |
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