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Book |
Quote/Comment |
The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
Burton L. White, The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, ©2004, P15 |
The people that I know who have studied the
development of children over the years number in the hundreds because I’ve
been around for a long time. I don’t know two of them that applaud the
notion of a transfer of the primary responsibility of child rearing over to
any substitute. Most of the people I know do not like it. Very few of the
people I know are willing to speak out in public the way I do...
The people who create substitute care facilities are not doing it primarily
because they’re looking for better ways of raising babies. They’re doing it
for legitimate needs or perceived needs of adults.
Category =
Quality |
The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
Selma Fraiberg / Robert Coles, The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, ©2004, P16 |
I have to speak out against the way thousands and
thousands of children are treated - handed from one
virtual stranger to another in the name of ‘day care’. Even licensed
day-care centres or preschool nurseries often fail to meet the child’s need
for a sustained, close involvement with a caring person.
Category =
Quality |
The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
Dr. Peter S. Cook, The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, ©2004, P20 |
“Extensive non-parental care in infancy is
without long-term precedent in humans or any other mammals.
The major environmental changes involved in this massive social experiment
should have some kind of “environmental impact assessment”.
The burden of proof that such changes in the early environment of infants
are safe should be on those who advocate them, just as the purveyors of
other environmental changes, like additives to food or water, must provide
evidence that they are safe for human consumption.
As in medicine, the precautionary principle of primum non nocere –
“first and foremost do no harm” – should
apply. This principle is not being applied in polices which advocate more
child care for infants and young
children.”
Category =
Behavior |
The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
Professor David Baum, The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, ©2004, P22 |
Babies and infants are, like other young
mammals, nestlings who should be reared, nourished and nurtured by their
mothers. Extensive non-parental care in infancy is without precedent in
humans or other animals and to continue to ignore this will historically be
judged to have been a madness or neglect.
Category =
History, Quality |
The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
Jay Belsky, The Canadian Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, ©2004, P24 |
Child care “experts” who tell (mothers of young
children) what they want to hear will sell their books and get paid for
lectures. Those who still say babies and toddlers need full-time mothering
are now often charged with being sexist, manipulative old fogies who want to
keep women stuck at home.
Category =
Politics |
The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
Linda Burton, The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, ©2004, P35 |
Nobody wants to hear the truth about day care.
Nobody wants to be the one to say it. So we keep skirting around the
business of coming right out and telling parents that, “By golly, one of YOU
needs to be there for those kids,”...
But we already know what is best for the kids. What the kids need is not
profound. There is no baffling, convoluted mystery here. Kids need their
parents. Kids need to be raised by someone who loves them and who puts them
first, and not by someone who takes care of them because they are being paid
to do it. These words are not what America wants to hear, however...
Category =
Politics, Quality |
The Forgotten Sides of Daycare
for Under 3's:
The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, ©2004, P43 |
Almost everyone agrees that day care of any kind
is not the optimal way to raise a child. Yet, the full-time care of a loving
parent - once thought to be every child’s birthright - is now being derided
as a Utopian dream.
Category =
Quality |
