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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, p
53 |
Production line systems fundamental to industrial
enterprises are antithetical to the personalised attention, constancy and
attachment basic to caregiving and the process of human socialization.
...while it matters little if floors are swept by
different people every week, it matters
a lot if children's caregivers are repeatedly
changed. The more economies of scale a centre employs,
the worse the care, and the poorer the results. This is particularly true
for babies. Human young do not come in litters.
Even parents of large families have children of different ages. We often
hear how difficult, if not impossible, it is for parents of triplets to
manage even the basic physical care of
three babies at a time. What hope, then, for the childminder* in charge of
eight, six or even four?
*Childminder- British term
referring to a person, usually a woman, whose job is to take care of other
people's children in her own home.
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Quality |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996, p
55 |
Plentiful American evidence suggests how
'for profit' childcare services are past masters of living at the edge of
compliance when it comes to regulations related, for example, to training or
staff ratios. One way is to hire the minimum number of trained staff allowed
and structure the classes in 'accordion style':
A few children arrive between 7:00 and 8:00 and are placed in a room with
one caregiver. At 8:00 more children arrive, so the group is divided and two
caregivers are now required ... By 9:00, most children have arrived, four
groups are created, and perhaps as many as six caregivers are available. At
the end of the day the accordion folds back up ... From the child's
perspective, it is possible to experience five different groups of peers and
at least that many different staff during a single day.
Category =
Regulation, Quality |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996, p
56 |
If childcare is a business, then the profit
motive is bound to dominate questions of space, time, staff services,
children's experiences, and the overall social and physical landscape.
Overwhelmingly, worldwide evidence is that 'for profit' provisions tend to
be the low-quality provisions.
While there is much glossy deception involved in selling the product, the
outcome of a system in which children are 'instrumental resources, the
parents are consumers ... is frequently an abusive childcare system.'
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Economics, Quality |
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