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Book |
Quote/Comment |
The Hidden Costs of Childcare
by Patricia Morgan
Family Education Trust © 1992
page 39-40 |
Writing about a pilot project at Yale
University...the authors concluded that:
"When adults have a fair capacity to be parents, their young children do
best when cared for mainly by parents...Group care, even under the best
circumstances is stressful for very young children...In contrast to the
natural family setting and activities, how artificial is the daycare center
and what it can provide. It is very difficult to
duplicate in the (daycare) center more than a few of the experiences most
appropriate for the toddler, experiences that he could have at home without
anyone giving the matter a moment's thought...
...separation reactions become more acute as the day lengthens and
fatigue decreases coping ability.
Category =
Behavior, Quality |
The Hidden Costs of Childcare
by Patricia Morgan
Family Education Trust © 1992
page 40 |
In the Edward Melhuish study, mothers
and relatives showed significantly more affection towards children and were
involved in far more communications than nursery workers or childminders*.
The overall level of responsiveness of nurseries to the children was lower
in every respect compared to the home. Moreover, a host of British and
American studies show how mothers are far more responsive and affectionate
than childminders*.
*Childminder-British
term referring to a person, ususally a woman, whose job is to take care of
other people's children in her own home.
Category =
Quality |
The Hidden Costs of Childcare
by Patricia Morgan
Family Education Trust © 1992
page 42 |
The repeated call for 'affordable,
high quality, and accessible day care' is a contradiction in terms.
Countries which have tried to move...all young children into daycare seem to
have the greatest difficulty, given any amount of resources and effort, to
provide for more than about 30 per cent (at a generous estimate) of
pre-school children in public institutions of any reasonable standard.
Category =
Economics |
The Hidden Costs of Childcare
by Patricia Morgan
Family Education Trust © 1992
page 43-44 |
There are prohibitive costs involved in
running a good childcare centre, particularly for babies. These make 'good
quality childcare' an essentially nonprofit commodity. Overwhelmingly the
evidence, from this country and from America, suggests that 'for profit'
provisions are low quality provisions. The lives of children are secondary
to the profit motive...
Category =
Economics |
Sex, Art, And American Culture
by Camille Paglia, Professor of Humanities, University of the
Arts, Philadelphia
Outspoken Feminist Lesbian Libertarian Social Critic and Educator |
No...day-care center can ever adequately
substitute for a mother's attention. |
