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Book |
Quote/Comment |
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The War Against the Family: A Parent
Speaks Out, William Gairdner
©1992, page 340 |
Jay Belsky calls
extensive daycare (in the 20+ hours a week range a "risk condition" for
children -- an therefore for society as a whole. Why? Because -- there is
near unanimity on this point -- poorly attached children are sociopaths
in the making.
Category = Behavior |
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The War Against the Family: A Parent
Speaks Out, William Gairdner
©1992, page 341 |
A clear sense of the problem can be
grasped from the turnover rates of child-care workers..."Attachment" is
impossible under such circumstances. I have heard that the average Swedish
child has more than a hundred different "caregivers" by the age of 10. The
term should be "caretakers." We can be sure that extensive daycare
facilities will be match by extensive increases in the number of divorces,
social violence, psychiatric beds, and jail cells.
Category = Behavior,
Quality |
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The War Against the Family: A Parent
Speaks Out, William Gairdner
©1992, page 341 |
As if generations of children who
grow up lacking empathic capacities are not enough, daycare facilities, by
their very nature, are hosts for all sorts of illnesses and diseases, some
of them extremely dangerous to daycare children and their families.
Category = Disease |
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The War Against the Family: A Parent
Speaks Out, William Gairdner
©1992, page 342 |
There's a horrible
litany of "Daycare-Related Illnesses" (DCRIs), as they are called...
Studies too numerous to mention show up to 12 times greater risk for such
diseases in daycare children, and many of these bacterial and viral
conditions can have sequelae (aftereffects) like scarlet fever, nephritis
(kidney inflammation), rheumatic fever (inflammation of the heart),
septicemia, meningitis, septic arthritis, and osteomyelitis.
...even the cautious CDC has warned that "large, licensed daycare
centers...are major transmission centres for hepatitis, sever diarrhea, and
other diseases.
Category = Disease |
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Who's afraid of the Religious Right?
by Don Feder, Chapter 7, The
Culture War, SubSection: Whatever happened to the idea of community?
25-Nov-93 |
Women park their preschoolers in day care.
Where once neighborhoods…echoed with children's laughter, today…they are
deserted as ghost towns.
Category = Politics |
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Crime and the Sacking of America: The
Roots of Chaos by Andrew Peyton Thomas, © 1994,
p166 |
The rise of day care in modern America says some
painful things about us as parents and as a nation and culture, things that
are easier to leave unsaid.
Category = Politics |
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Crime and the Sacking of America: The
Roots of Chaos by Andrew Peyton Thomas, © 1994,
p167 |
American women today are commonly thought to be
shiftless or, at best, behind the times if they do not hand over their
babies to the anonymous arms of a (daycare worker), so that they can then
work outside the home.
Category = Politics |
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Crime and the Sacking of America: The
Roots of Chaos by Andrew Peyton Thomas, © 1994,
p167 |
The...research into the effects of day care on
infants has revealed that such children, and the society that later sustains
them, eventually suffer...
Category = Behavior, Quality |
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Crime and the Sacking of America: The
Roots of Chaos by Andrew Peyton Thomas, © 1994,
p168 |
The reason for this (aggressive) behavior (of
children raised in daycare) is clear enough and presses to the fore no
matter how hard we try to evade it.
...The workers at such centers lack the extra, essential personal bond with
the children...
That is, they do not love them.
Category = Behavior, Quality |
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Crime and the Sacking of America: The
Roots of Chaos by Andrew Peyton Thomas, © 1994,
p169 |
America's multi-billion-dollar day-care industry
represents the delayed triumph of
Plato
and his modern medium for the social sciences,
Marx. Formally
confined to small [and since abandoned] social experiments, such as the
Israeli kibbutzim, day care
has now become part of the average American childhood. As Dr. Brenda
Hunter has observed of what she termed a "massive human experiment," "never
before in American history have so many children been raised by strangers."
Such children spend most of their waking hours during the earliest, most
impressionable years in these centers, where they learn the Platonic
communal spirit as best they can. There is indeed no "mine" and "not
mine" here, as Plato would have it, since there is no love.
Category = Economics, History, Quality |
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Crime and the Sacking of America: The
Roots of Chaos by Andrew Peyton Thomas, © 1994,
p169 |
For all
Plato's
and Marx's valiant
egalitarian efforts, no (daycare worker), no matter how well paid, is
psychologically capable of providing the same affection. Parental love
is discriminatory.
Category = History, Quality |
