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Book |
Quote/Comment |
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, P77 |
It is easy to see why governments and their
institutions are eager to believe that message. They want the best for
children, or say they do. But...individual care (of children) is very
expensive. Daycare can offer economies of scale on the one hand and jobs on
the other.
Category = Economics, 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 |
Why do (parents) believe that daycare is OK? What
sad and subtle subtext* tells them that money
earned away and spent on their children is more important than time at home
spent with their children?
* subtext -content of a book, play, movie,
etc. which is not announced explicitly by the characters but is implicit or
becomes something understood by the reader or audience.
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 |
Most of the parents who must leave their infants
with outsiders and most of the governments who encourage them to do so favor
professional childcare over the arrangements with private individuals which
currently provide most daycare places, especially for babies and toddlers.
...But even the best of this type of (home daycare) care is not generally
regarded as desirable or satisfactory.
Category = Politics, Quality
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Children First
What our society must do--and is not doing--for our children
today
by Penelope Leach ©1994, P80 |
The truth is that institutional daycare offers
advantages to adults that have nothing to do with infants' safety or
happiness.
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, P80 |
Policy-makers assume that there are
major economic advantages to institutional care, especially the economy of
scale achieved by having one worker looking after, say, five infants or ten
preschool children, instead of an individual caregiver who typically looks
after only one or two in addition to her own.
Category = Economics, Politics
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