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from books about daycare -
2000-2002,
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What's Wrong with Day Care
by Charles Siegel,
Teachers College Press, New York, NY © 2001,
page 32 & 33 |
This lack of emotional involvement
with their parents as infants makes it difficult for the children of the
kibbutz (ideal daycare) to
develop intimacy with others as they grow up...
...The founders of the kibbutz
movement...deliberately wanted to weaken the family...
Category = Behavior
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The Broken Hearth
Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family, by
William J. Bennett, October 2001, Chapter I, The State of Marriage and the
Family, p26 |
My own view -- to state it right
form the start -- is that day care is no substitute for a parent's
unqualified love and devotion, patience, empathy, and unhurried attention.
The writer Karl Zinsmeister puts it this way, and I agree: "A
child and a parent are
bound eternally, by blood and destiny.
A day-care worker is doing a job." Of course, not every child
comes from a caring and loving home; and of course, the quality of day care
varies considerably. But in the large majority of cases, day care
cannot measure up to the devotion of a mother,
and we are embracing shadow and myth if we think otherwise.
Category = Quality |
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Bringing up Boys
by Dr. James Dobson, ©2001, p. 85 |
Given the delicate nature of
infants, perhaps it is understandable why I remain unalterably opposed to
the placement of babies in day-care facilities unless there is no reasonable
alternative.
...But to new mothers who have other options, I would strongly recommend
that you not hand your babies over to childcare workers, many of whom are
underpaid and untrained and who will not share your irrational commitment to
that infant.
Category = Quality |
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Bringing up Boys
by Dr. James Dobson, ©2001, p. 85 |
My opinion on this subject (placing
young infants in daycare) is based on hard data...
...After the release of the NICHD study*, there
was a hue and cry from the liberal community that has told us for years that
children actually thrive better in child-care centers. They attacked
the methodology of the study and claimed its findings were invalid.
*NICHD study -
NICHD's (US National Institute for Child Health and Development)
on-going study found that children who spend more than 30 hours a week
in day care at an early age tend to be more aggressive, especially toward
their peers. The study also found that these children were more fearful, shy
and sad.
Category = Behavior, Development |
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How
the Media Distort the News
by Bernard Goldberg, ©2002,
Chapter 11, The Most Important Story You Never Saw on TV,
p166 |
Why have the evening news casts tiptoed around
the most sensitive of all issues involving children -- the day-care issue --
going out of their way to accentuate the positive and deemphasize the
negative?
Category = Politics |
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How
the Media Distort the News
Chapter 11, The Most Important Story You Never Saw on TV,
by Bernard Goldberg, ©2002,
p 171 |
The argument here is that once
again the elite journalists on television have taken sides. Too many
day-care centers in America are not as good as they ought to be, they and
their "experts" frequently tell us, so the challenge is to spend more
government money to subsidize day care and to make it better. I am not
against "better day care," and I have no problem with the evening news doing
stories about how that might be done. The problem is that they don't
let the other voices on. The ones who say that most toddlers are
better off with their own mothers than with day-care workers...
Category = Politics, Quality |
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How
the Media Distort the News
Chapter 11, The Most Important Story You Never Saw on TV,
by Bernard Goldberg, ©2002,
p 175 |
On network TV, given the prevailing sensibilities
that reign there, voices that argue for policies that would make it easier
for moms to drop their kids off at day care are considered thoughtful,
compassionate, and reasonable. But voices that argue for less
day care, because day care is bad for kids--frankly, I don't think the media
elites even know such voices exist.
Category = Politics |
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