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Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights
by Sonya Michel, ©1999, P259, 260 |
...most for-profits sought to keep standards low
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The profit motive clearly affected the atmosphere of child care facilities.
...Educator Joseph Featherstone was one of the first social critics to sound
the alarm about the deleterious* effects of
for-profit child care (in) a famously entitled 1970 article, "The Day Care
Problem: Kentucky Fried Children"...
Featherstone deplored the idea of marketing child care franchises "the way
others have sold franchises for root beer and fried chicken," and he
remarked..."I don't think the franchisers will be able to make money running
good programs."
The major expense--and therefore the major site for realizing a profit...was
(and is) in salaries, thus profits could be
achieved only by maintaining the lowest possible salaries and
caregiver-to-child ratios that the local labor market and the law would
allow.
*deleterious = harmful, hurtful
Category = Economics
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Children's Interests/Mothers' Rights
by Sonya Michel, ©1999, P261 |
Not surprisingly, whenever legislators and
children's advocates called for tougher requirements at both the federal and
state levels, the proprietaries* rose up to
challenge them. By the early 1980's the National Association of Child Care
Management, with a membership of owners and managers of proprietary centers,
had become "a strong lobby on Capitol Hill." Their chief concern was to
block federal standards that would raise either staffing levels or salary
requirements, and they rejoiced when the 1981 OBRA converted Title XX into
block grants, effectively depriving Washington of its regulatory power over
child care.
*Proprietaries =
a group of owners of a business enterprise
Category = Politics
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Saving Childhood by Michael
and Diane Medved, ©1998, P 189-190 |
...The more time a child spent in childcare, the
less affectionate and more negative were his interactions with his own
mother. Bad news, since "more than half of infants under age one
receive care by someone other than their mothers..."
Category = Behavior |
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Saving Childhood by Michael
and Diane Medved, ©1998, P 190 |
Kathleen Parker writes in USA Today, "
...One might wonder how many children have suffered from society's
media-fed delusion that kids are just fine stashed in nurturing warehouses
(day cares) with runny-nosed tykes and too few competent
adults."
Category = Politics |
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