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Book |
Quote/Comment |
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The Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000,
page 46 |
As we pointed out earlier, studies
of the quality of available day care are not optimistic.
We may be trying to rationalize a system that
simply isn't providing the essentials of what children need.
Category = Quality |
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The Irreducible Needs of Children
by
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D.,
© 2000,
page 48 |
We do not recommend full-time day
care, 30 or more hours of care by non-parents, for infants and toddlers if
the parents are able to provide high-quality care themselves and if the
parents have reasonable options.
Category = Quality |
Parenthood by
Proxy --
Don't Have Them If You Won't Raise Them
by Dr. Laura C.
Schlessinger,
Harper Collins publishers, New York, NY © 2000,
p. 43 |
(On
July 16, 1995) Joe Woodard wrote in the Calgary Sun that the law of
nature backs traditional families and parent care. “But for the last two
generations the social sciences have been trying to scuttle the home-truths
of human common sense…(and) have been eager to consign our little tykes to
baby-farms.”
Category = Politics
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Parenthood by
Proxy,
by Dr. Laura C.
Schlessinger,
© 2000, p. 61-62 |
Watch
Discovery Channel any night and see the behavior of all other primates as
they groom, touch, play, communicate, share mealtime, snuggle, jockey for
position, and just generally hang together. Watch your local television and
see humans solitary in traffic, frantic at work, separated from their
children, grabbing fast food on the run, giving their kids nutrition bars or
doughnuts as they rush off to day care. And we are the pinnacle of
primate development?
Category = Quality |
Parenthood by
Proxy,
by Dr. Laura C.
Schlessinger,
© 2000, p. 80 |
Lie #2:
“Day care is perfectly good.” The most recent comprehensive study conducted
by researchers at four universities found that while 15 percent of day care
facilities were excellent, 70 percent were “barely adequate,” and 15 percent
were abysmal. Parents overlook problems in their day care setup as a
defense against the ideal notion of children being raised by their parents.
Category = Quality |
Parenthood by
Proxy,
by Dr. Laura C.
Schlessinger,
© 2000, p. 83 |
As I
faced an audience of largely younger women hostile to my ideas (Phil Donahue
show, 1994), the conversation got to day care. “If you were going to wake
up tomorrow morning as an infant, would you choose to be raised by a day
care center… rather than by your mother?” I challenged. “If so, stand up
now!”
The
camera panned the audience. Nobody got up. Nobody even spoke. It was a
telling silence.
Nonetheless, people lie about day care. They lie to themselves. They lie
to others.
Category = Quality
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