Book |
Quote/Comment |
Women Who Make the World Worse,
by Kate O'Beirne ©2006, P29 |
So who exactly benefits from the
(proposed) expensive federal day care system...? More affluent families, who
can afford to pay for their child care, or those blue-collar mothers who
have to work, but who don't want center-based care? Even when they pay lip
service to allowing women choices, (day care advocates) never offer
alternatives to help mothers who choose to stay home.
Category = Economics,
Politics |
Women Who Make the World Worse,
by Kate O'Beirne ©2006, P30 |
The most direct benefits of (universal
daycare proposals) would go to the day care lobby, the National Education
Association, big business, and affluent career women.
Category =
Economics, Politics |
Women Who Make the World Worse,
by Kate O'Beirne ©2006, P31 |
The majority of families with children
wouldn't get a dime of the funds proposed, because, to the militant
irritation of the day care industry, they don't use professional substitute
care. The (universal daycare) plans would have less affluent one-earner
families...subsidizing the day care costs for generally more affluent
two-earner families...
Category =
Politics |
Women Who Make the World Worse,
by Kate O'Beirne ©2006, P35 |
The final report (of the 1970 White
House Conference on Children) declared, "Day care is a powerful institution.
A day care program that ministers to a child from six months to six years of
age has over 8,000 hours to (indoctrinate him with) values, fears, beliefs,
and behaviors."
Category =
Politics, Quality |
Women Who Make the World Worse,
by Kate O'Beirne ©2006, P35 |
Debates over day care--usually dubbed
"the Mommy Wars"--are among the most treacherous fought out in the public
square.
...the child-care establishment (an industry worth $36 billion a year) has
engaged in deceit and censorship to prevent an honest assessment of what
decades of research can now tell us about the effects of substitute care on
children.
Category =
Politics |
Women Who Make the World Worse,
by Kate O'Beirne ©2006, P36 |
Hypocrisy is clear when
LIBERAL* proponents of (daycare)
center-based child care are found advocating the boosting of big business's
profits, the expansion of tax cuts for the rich, and the sabotaging of
women's choices.
(*Emphasis added -- Editor. Dedicated
Liberals are generally against big business, tax cuts for the wealthy and
are pro-choice)
Category =
Politics |
Women Who Make the World Worse,
by Kate O'Beirne ©2006, P37 |
In (her 1977 book, Every Child's
Birthright), Selma Fraiberg argued that even high-quality day care is
harmful because it prevents children from forming the healthy attachment to
one caregiver that allows them, in turn, to form lasting commitments as
adults.
Category =
Quality, Behavior |
Women Who Make the World Worse,
by Kate O'Beirne ©2006, P37 |
But the bad news kept coming. That same
year, the unwelcome results were in on a pilot program at Yale University
that had been designed to provide the optimal day-care setting. The
researchers concluded: "Group care, even under the
best circumstances, is stressful for very young children."
Category =
Quality |
Women Who Make the World Worse,
by Kate O'Beirne ©2006, P37 |
According to a study by the American
Academy of Family Physicians, children in day care are eighteen times more
likely to get sick than other children, and infants in day care have more
than twice the rate of inner-ear infections as babies who are raised at
home. At any one time, 16 percent of children attending day care facilities
are likely to be sick. They are three to four and a half times more likely
to require hospital treatment than children raised at home.
Category =
Disease |
Women Who Make the World Worse,
by Kate O'Beirne ©2006, P40 |
Dr. Sandra Scarr, a child
psychologist, is one of the most influential day-care researchers and has
published four books and over two hundred articles that amount to a massive
corpus* of propaganda.
...In a conflict of interest that wouldn't be tolerated in any other field,
she has published her academic work while serving on the board of directors
of the largest day-care chain in the country.
* corpus = body
Category =
Politics |
Women Who Make the World Worse,
by Kate O'Beirne ©2006, P42 |
In de Marneffe's*
opinion, "Given how enormously expensive a government-funded day care system
of highly-trained, well-paid staff would be, many people would rather put
their money toward funding their own 'high quality' care of their children
than toward a publicly funded system."
*Daphne de Marneffe, clinical psychologist and author of Maternal Desire: On
Children, Love, and the Inner Life. ©2004
Category =
Economics, Politics, Quality |
Reaching the Left from the Right,
by Barbara Curtis, ©2006, P47-48 |
...daycare
is not...good for children. According to the National Institutes of Health,
children who spend most of their waking hours in daycare are three times
more at risk for behavioral problems...
Their study...found a direct correlation between time in childcare and
traits like aggression, defiance, and disobedience. These correlations were
true regardless of the type or quality of care...
Specifically, daycare kids "scored higher on things like getting in lots of
fights, cruelty, bullying, meanness, as well as talking too much, demands
that must be met immediately."
Category = Behavior, Quality |