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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 119 |
Claims that full maternal employment represents
an immense gain to productivity or economic well-being rest, to no small
extent, on the entry of previously unpaid services into the money
economy.
...However, this does not increase the services rendered; it merely puts a
monetary value on them. When people buy takeaway (*take-out) food instead of
cooking it themselves, nothing is there that would not have existed before,
as one woman fries burgers while another minds her baby.
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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 125 |
The campaign for daycare is like a juggernaut*
racing downhill. It carries an unlikely band of fellow-travelers—feminists
and advocates of ‘alternative lifestyles’, together with industrialists,
trade unionists, left-wing academics and right-wing government
spokespersons. There is an almost universal
consensus in the media that
the mass provision of daycare is both desirable and
urgently required.
Any
alternative viewpoint is
regarded as almost too absurd to mention.
And yet, as we have seen, the case for daycare is
far from watertight…
These people are calling for the mass institutionalisation of the youngest,
and most vulnerable groups of the ordinary child population, as a ‘better’
form of child rearing…
*Juggernaut - A massive inexorable
force that seems to crush everything in its way
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