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2003-2004,
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The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, ©2004, P3 |
Principle 6 of the 1959 U.N. Declaration of the
Rights of the Child states that “...a child of tender years shall not save
in exceptional circumstances, be separated from his mother”.
Category =
Regulations |
The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
Robert Lee Hotz, The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, ©2004, P5 |
Mary Carlson, the Harvard Medical
School scientist...discovered that youngsters whose families kept them in
... daycare centres on work days had abnormal levels of stress hormones on
weekdays but not on the weekend when the children were home...
Category =
Behavior |
The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
Penelope Leach, The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, ©2004, P7 |
When you cope with two or three at once, there is
no way you can simultaneously respond to messages about milk, cuddles, and
dropped toys. (ask anyone who has triplets.)
Category =
Quality |
The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
Penelope Leach, The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, ©2004, P7 |
After all, one-to-one care by
someone outside the family offers no economies of scale*. If it releases
anyone to fill the skill shortage it does so only by leaving babies with
less-skilled - or at least less well paid adults, an uncomfortably
colonialist (exploitation of a weaker
by a stronger)
thought.
*Economies of Scale - These occur
when mass producing a good results in lower average cost. The more of a
good you produce, the less it costs for each additional unit. For example,
a plant that produces 1000 cars would be more efficient than a plant
producing five cars.
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Economics |
The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
Jay Belsky, The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, ©2004, P11 |
Contrary to the expectations (and desires) of
many in the field of child development, the NICHD Study shows:
(1) that the more time children spend in any of a variety of nonmaternal
care arrangements across the first 4.5 years of life, the more aggression,
disobedience, and conflict with adults they manifest at 54 months of age and
in kindergarten;
(2) that these seemingly adverse effects remain even after taking into
account multiple features of children’s families, as well as the quality and
type of nonmaternal care which children experienced; and
(3) that more time in care predicts not just more assertive or independent
behavior, but more truly aggressive and disobedient behavior, as well...
Category =
Behavior |
The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
Penelope Leach, The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, ©2004, P13 |
“To replace a mother with an employee cannot be
done. This is partly of course because what is expected of mothers is far
beyond what is expected of any employee. But allowing for any kind of time
off, promotion, on the job training, vacations - anything of this kind - you
cannot provide a child with a continuous or more or less continuous mother
figure in an institutional setting.
“Now this is even before we start talking about how many infants economics
demand that one person should care for. Once you add in that factor and say
that this group of employees are to care for six or eight or ten babies, of
course the whole thing becomes ludicrous, because you can’t do it for
multiple children. To meet the needs of even twins, any mother of twins will
tell you, in the sensitive way we most of us reckon to meet the needs of a
single baby is in itself impossible. Staff in charge of some of the best
residential and day nurseries in the country have lavished ingenuity,
devotion and all the money they could get on trying to provide stability of
care for the babies in their charge.
It cannot be done.
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Economics |
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