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Book |
Quote/Comment |
Raising Babies:
Should under 3s go to nursery?
by Steve Biddulph,
©2005, p. 157 |
The media must accept a lot of the responsibility
for shaping the attitudes and beliefs of young parents as to what is normal:
'You can have it all' is a very advertiser-friendly editorial line. A recent
magazine article on childcare choices featured photos of unusually
good-looking mothers with their babies at the beach...
Category = Politics. |
Raising Babies:
Should under 3s go to nursery?
by Steve Biddulph,
©2005, p. 158 |
Several years ago one of the largest bookstore
chains in the UK asked me to write a book on 'Choosing Childcare -- deciding
what is right for you'. I was excited about this idea since it was a chance
to put across some of the concerns you have been reading about here.
I wrote them back just to be sure. Were they aware that I believed most
alternatives to parental care of babies to be seriously second rate? That I
would not recommend nursery care or nannies for children under the age of
two?
...it turned out...They wanted to sell books that made people feel GOOD
about whatever they chose, and perhaps I wasn't their man. So with courtesy
and warmth, we parted our ways! I guess they found somebody else.
Category = Politics, Quality |
Raising Babies:
Should under 3s go to nursery?
by Steve Biddulph,
©2005, p. 160 |
It is possible to keep improving daycare
indefinitely, but the expense is astronomical. The kind of love that a
parent gives, were it to be measured in monetary terms, would be worth
millions of pounds* per child. The nursery care industry depends utterly on
a supply of low-paid labour. If nursery care workers were paid what
they deserve, the industry would collapse.
*Pounds = Unit of British money
Category = Economics, Quality |
Raising Babies:
Should under 3s go to nursery?
by Steve Biddulph,
©2005, p. 160 |
The strong feeling among European countries is
that it is more cost effective to subsidize parents of young children under
the age of two to stay at home, than to subsidize nurseries (day-cares) which at best do
a second-rate job of caring for this age group.
Category = Economics, Politics, Quality |
Raising Babies:
Should under 3s go to nursery?
by Steve Biddulph,
©2005, p. 160-161 |
The nursery (daycare) nightmare is not over yet. Every year
more and more parents put younger and younger babies into nurseries. There
are nurseries in high buildings where children never touch the ground, and
others where they never go outside and breathe fresh air. In some countries
there are all-week crèches where children live round-the-clock, like baby
boarding schools. Perhaps one day it will be possible simply to hand over
one's newborn baby and check their progress on the internet. Virtual
parenthood.
Category = Politics, Quality |
