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Facing the Effects of Mother's Absence,
Home by Choice,
by Brenda Hunter, Ph.d, ©1991
page 66 |
...day care is a breeding ground for disease--for
children of any age. Children in day care are exposed to a host of
diseases, ranging from bacterial meningitis to epiglottitis,
cytomegalovirus, and hepatitis A. In addition, children in day care
are a much higher risk for having gastrointestinal disease, especially
diarrhea, than are home-reared children.
Category = Disease |
Facing the Effects of Mother's Absence,
Home by Choice,
by Brenda Hunter, Ph.d, ©1991
page 67 |
...one of the silent costs of years spent in
highly regimented day care will be a longing for the freedom of lost
childhood. Play is the work of childhood. To play freely
children need unstructured time. They need to be able to concentrate
on building houses with blocks, coloring, dressing their dolls, waging
warfare without the constant interference and regimentation that day care
requires.
Category = Quality |
Facing the Effects of Mother's Absence,
Home by Choice,
by Brenda Hunter, Ph.d, ©1991
page 68 |
When a child spends eleven or twelve hours of his
waking day in the care of indifferent custodians, no parent and no educator
can say the child's development is being promoted or enhanced, and common
sense tells us that children are harmed by indifference.
Category = Development, Quality |
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem, © 1991
p330 |
Such (day care) centers have been
strongly related to the transmission of diseases such as hepatitis,
meningitis, cytomegalovirus, and other illnesses. Increasing evidence
of negative psychological effects such as disruptions in maternal bonding,
aggression, impulsivity, selfishness, and later school discipline problems
is emerging in the research literature.
Marked anger and a sense of rejection are seen in many daycare children.
Category = Behavior, Disease |
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem, © 1991
p330 |
The potential harm of a broad
emphasis on day care goes beyond the possible negative impact on children,
however, and it is more than a probable waste of tax dollars.
Government-sponsored universal day care would increase the favored financial
status treatment of wealthier, two-career and single-parent families
relative to the struggling majority, creating an economic and tax climate
that would...further punish stable, traditional, or semi-traditional
families.
Category = Politics |
Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem, © 1991
p337 |
A study of primarily middle-class
children was conducted by University of Texas at Dallas researchers Deborah
Lowe Vandell and Mary Anne Corasaniti. This study indicated that
full-time childcare was associated with poorer study skills, lower grades,
diminished self-esteem, and inadequate social interaction. Those who
went into full-time care after the first year did not develop as well
socially, emotionally, and intellectually as those in part-time care or
those whose mothers stayed at home with them.
...Isn't it amazing that legislators are looking for ways to enable families
to send their children to day care rather than looking for ways to enable
mothers to stay at home with their children?
Category = Behavior,
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