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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 109 |
The singular difficulties and cost of providing
good quality care, with its highly involved and trained staff, small group
size, caregiver stability, and low infant to caregiver ratios, should
surely demonstrate how 'affordable, universally available, good-quality,
easily available childcare' (to use the popular mantra) is a chimaera*,
unrealisable in the real world. Affordable care is low-quality care.
Universally available high-quality care is achievable nowhere on earth.
*An illusion or fabrication, an
unrealizable dream derived from Greek mythology: a she-monster with a lion’s
head vomiting flames, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail—an imaginary
monster compounded of incongruous parts. Also "Chimera"
Category = Quality, Economics |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996,
p 109 |
What Are The Real Gains?
Anyone who believes that there are gains to be made for the public purse
from childcare is under a delusion.
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Economics |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996,,
p 118 |
Trends in Europe
Overall, the trend of recent years (in France, Germany, and Italy) has been
towards extending maternity leave in some form to make it possible for a
parent to be at home until the child is at least one-an-a-half or preferably
three:
The rationales offered for these policies include the extraordinarily high
costs of satisfactory out-of-home infant care, a belief that young children
are better off if the mother stays home for a while...
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