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Book |
Quote/Comment |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", P242 |
Since day care is likely to have a negative
impact on children's behavioral, emotional and even physical health, there
seems to be little argument for subsidizing it further.
Category =
Behavior, Disease, Development, Quality |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", P242 |
Some might contend that subsidization would lead
some parents to choose higher-quality (day) care. But one careful study finds
that subsidies lead parents to buy more hours of child care, not better child
care.
Category =
Politics |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", P242-243 |
In any case, very young kids do best with their
parents.
To subsidize and thus encourage
inferior kinds of care in the hope they
(daycare) will become a little
better is a bit like subsidizing low-tar cigarettes
because they are not quite as bad as other kinds of cigarettes.
Category =
Politics |
Home-Alone America:
The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavior
Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes,
by Mary Eberstadt ©2004, P 4 |
Yes, many parents have to use day
care. But there is a difference between having to use it and
celebrating the institution at full-throttle.
Category =
Politics |
Home-Alone America
by Mary Eberstadt
©2004, P 5 |
Day care centers literally make
children sick. They do this a lot more efficiently than care at home.
Category =
Disease |
Home-Alone America
by Mary Eberstadt
©2004, P 5 |
...infections
are more likely among babies or toddlers tended to in an institutional
setting--for three rather obvious reasons.
First, infants in full-time care are almost certainly not being
breast-fed...
Second...diaper-wearing and constant hand-to-mouth contact, make (babies and
toddlers) germ carriers beyond compare, especially germs transmitted by
saliva or feces.
Third, the sheer number of children encountered every day in such
institutions...dramatically raises the likelihood of infection.
Category = Disease
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Home-Alone America
by Mary Eberstadt
©2004, P 5-6 |
One current American Academy of Pediatrics fact
sheet on "Controlling Illness in Child Care Programs"--the title is
suggestive in itself--enumerates a number of other infections that are
spread more easily in day care, from the common cold to gastrointestinal
problems to any number of skin and eye infections (impetigo, lice, ringworm,
scabies, cold sores, and conjunctivitis, or pinkeye).
Category = Disease |
