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Book |
Quote/Comment |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", p231 |
Even if we could somehow keep all (daycare)
workers in the same center for their working lives, we wouldn't provide much
continuity of care for the individual child. When the infants become
toddlers, they will have new caretakers, and will probably move from the
infant room and its staff to the toddler room and its staff. The very fact
that the recommended staffing ratio changes from one staff member for every
4 children to one staff member for every 6 children will itself be enough to
ensure that there will be new caretakers for many continuing children. With
center-based child care it is simply impossible to meet (feminist
evolutionary anthropologist* Sarah) Hrdy's
bottom-line standard for quality day care: the "caretakers...have to be
the same caretakers."
*Ms. Hrdy studies how the
young are nurtured in different human cultures and in various animal
species.
Category =
Quality |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", P241 |
Women with higher education are the socioeconomic
group...most likely to put their children in the type of care that seems
worst for infants: center-based (day) care. Since women with high education
levels are very likely to be married to men making above-average incomes, it
is hard to credit the view that economics explain this remarkable...
situation.
Category =
Economics, Politics |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", P242 |
By fostering and encouraging the common opinion
that economic conditions compel the typical married woman to work, advocates
of...day care can drum up support for further subsidization of center-based
care, which both experts and the public think inferior to most other forms
of care.
Category =
Economics, Politics |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", P242 |
There is little evidence to support increased
subsidization of day care. Two-career families who put their children in
subsidized day care apparently produce a near tripling of the odds that
these children will be disobedient and aggressive--hardly a trend the
government should support financially.
Category =
Politics |
