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Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996,
p38 |
Other societies which have used daycare on a
large scale have had problems with infectious disease. At the turn of
the century the maternal and child welfare movement to promote child health
and reduce mortality rates concentrated heavily on reducing infant diarrhoea.
As there were massive outbreaks of gastro-intestinal disease in the North
West, often starting in the nurseries of the mill towns, this increased the
emphasis on looking after babies at home.
In 1980 the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
provided pay for a new mother to take leave for a year (extended to 18
months in 1986) as a way of 'improving the country's system of protection
for maternity and infancy'. Particularly alarming was the way in which
socio-hygenic studies of infant health demonstrated how the early return of
the mother to work was associated with respiratory disease, especially
pneumonia.
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Disease |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996
vii, Foreword, by Robert Whelan:
page 39 |
Children in Groups
Nursery advertisements tempt parents with the promise that their child will
have the 'stimulating company of his peers'. It is widely believed that
simply putting small children together is good for their social development.
This assumption is wildly at odds with a truism of
criminology*, which is there is nothing like a child's peer group for
encouraging aggression and delinquency, while its capacities as a humanising
and social agency are small.
* The author is a sociologist
specializing in criminology
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Behavior |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996,
p
40 |
In 1985 Ron Haskins took up the
aggression question. While they had received little or no publicity, a
total of ten studies from four different countries now related the extended
use of daycare to negative and aggressive behaviour, and decreased
co-operation with both peers and adults, in both large and small
samples. The age at which these negative traits appeared varied between two
and fifteen years.
...These negative aspects of substitute and group
care applied particularly to boys.
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