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Book |
Quote/Comment |
Mother in the Middle
Searching for Peace in the Mommy Wars, by Deborah Shaw Lewis
&
Charmaine Crouse Yoest
© 1996, p. 158 |
The more medical research we read,
the angrier we became. If current medical journals are reporting such a
variety of significant health problems associated with day care,
why are none of the popular women's magazines reporting that information?
Category = Politics |
Mother in the Middle
Searching for Peace in the Mommy Wars, by Deborah Shaw Lewis
&
Charmaine Crouse Yoest
© 1996, p. 159 |
...shouldn't the popular media be
informing the public of such serious health issues impacting our families
and our society, concerning the multibillion-dollar day care industry?
Yet mainstream magazines and newspapers tend to
downplay both these medical concerns and the concerns that the child
development community has about attachment.
Category =
Politics |
Mother in the Middle
Searching for Peace in the Mommy Wars, by Deborah Shaw Lewis
&
Charmaine Crouse Yoest
© 1996, p. 161 |
As a noted professor of pediatrics, the
late Dr. Robert Mendelsohn commented:
Over the past quarter century, parents have been misled by physicians and
others in the field of early childhood education. Instead of pressuring
government to throw more money into day care, we pediatricians should
instead invest more time and energy into informing parents--and our fellow
professionals--of the considerable and continuing medical risks that
children face when they are cared for outside the home.
Category =
Politics, Disease |
Mother in the Middle
Searching for Peace in the Mommy Wars, by Deborah Shaw Lewis
&
Charmaine Crouse Yoest
© 1996, p. 167 |
Organized child care--day care centers,
nurseries, and preschools--care for less than one in every four children of
employed mothers. Nevertheless, it is precisely this organized, out-of-home
care that most public policy discussions are tilted toward.
Category = Politics |
Mother in the Middle
Searching for Peace in the Mommy Wars, by Deborah Shaw Lewis
&
Charmaine Crouse Yoest
© 1996, p. 168 |
But parents who use research done in
good day care centers to reassure themselves that their children will be OK
in low-quality care are deceiving themselves.
(These) parents need to remind themselves that according to the University
of Colorado study, ... only one in seven (was any good).
Category =
Quality |
