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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
57 |
Childcare is certainly an area where one
frequently encounters attitudes that are contemptuous of childrearing and
barbarous towards children. This is seen as a low-grade, irrelevant
activity, which any idiot (literally) could take care of: 'Can't you use
empty garages/Nissan huts* and get some
unemployed teenager/pensioner** to baby-sit for
some pocket money?'
*Nissen hut -
a prefabricated shelter with a
semicircular arching roof of corrugated iron sheeting and a concrete floor -
similar to a Quonsettm hut.
**Retiree,
one who
receives a pension
Category =
Quality |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996, p 66 |
A small child may just be beginning to enjoy play
with other children, and might be able to sustain it for 30 or 45 minutes.
But children are in care centres for eight, ten or twelve hours--having to
engage in social relations for periods of time that would stress the most
gregarious adult, and are ten times longer than what many child development
experts consider enough for the pre-school child.
'By afternoon, restlessness, tearfulness, whininess, or lassitude*
become endemic...'
* Lassitude -
state of exhaustion or weakness
Category =
Behavior |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996, p 107 |
Introduction to PUBLIC POLICY IMPLICATIONS
All demands for childcare mention 'high quality', but universally available
high-quality childcare has not been achieved anywhere. The
supposed gains to the Exchequer* which would
result from getting mothers back to work can only make sense in the context
of cheap--i.e., poor-quality--childcare.
*Treasury
Category =
Economics |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996,
p 108 |
Overall, daycare is inferior to
parental care. The idea that 'the substitute mother can be the same as a
real mother is at best double-think*, at worst
nonsense'. In many, or most, cases, shifting care outside of the home means
a falling quality of care. This is particularly likely to be true for
middle-class children.
*Thought
marked by the acceptance of gross contradictions and falsehoods. Term
from George Orwell's Novel of a Stalinist future world, Nineteen
Eighty-Four.
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