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Children First
What our society must do--and is not doing--for our children
today
by Penelope Leach ©1994
PART ONE: Parents and Society
Chapter 1: People, Profits and Parenting, P18
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Workplace nurseries (day-cares) sound promising
but seldom prove to be so. High capital costs usually mean that daycare
facilities are housed in less expensive nearby premises rather than in
workplaces themselves, so parents must subject their children to commuter
travel but still be apart from them all day. Even if children are tolerated
or welcomed in them, most work environments are too dangerous or too boring
for children to be safe, happy or participant for long.
Category = Economics, Quality |
Children First
What our society must do--and is not doing--for our children
today
by Penelope Leach ©1994
PART TWO: Children and Parents
Chapter 4: Daycare: Dreams and Nightmares, P68 |
A daycare debate is raging from the White House
to Wall Street, from the European Commission to national parliaments, from
multinational corporation boardrooms to Main Street firms, and in political
parties, unions and women's organizations at every level. But that debate is
about big issues like the economy, the labor market and women's votes;
it is not about the small people whose care is the
issue.
Category = Politics
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Children First
What our society must do--and is not doing--for our children
today
by Penelope Leach ©1994, P79 |
And what about their children? While they are
babies or young toddlers, even the very best daycare seldom gives them
anything they positively need, and being in daycare, all day and every
day, often deprives them of what they need from mothers
Category = Quality |
Children First
What our society must do--and is not doing--for our children
today
by Penelope Leach ©1994, P73 |
...if only there were enough daycare...
That is the way the people in gray suits with computers for minds want women
to chose. Their blinkered* bias, conscious and
unconscious, fuels the assumption that "everybody...uses daycare."
*blinkers = blinders, used to prevent
skittish horses from seeing objects at their sides.
Category = Politics
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Children First
What our society must do--and is not doing--for our children
today
by Penelope Leach ©1994, P77 |
When media report, even editorialize, on the
effects of daycare on children, they usually pick on positive studies and
select their most positive results.
(But for)...studies that raise serious concerns about the effects of daycare
on very young children; none (receive) comparable coverage.
...the accepted and acceptable message is that good daycare is OK for kids
and more good daycare is better for everybody.
Category = Politics
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