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Book |
Quote/Comment |
Motherhood - how should we care for our
children? by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 212
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(Daycare advocate Sandra Scarr) advocated
lowering the quality of care while she was serving as the CEO of Kindercare.
So confident was she that she even began to argue for state intervention to
prevent mothers from staying at home.
...The important point, however, is the sheer coerciveness of Scarr's
proposal. Remember Simon de Beauvoir's comment that after the revolution the
choice to stay at home 'will not be permitted'? Scarr also looked forward to
the time when 'experts will even claim that "being isolated at home with one
adult and no peers" "is harmful" and "should not be permitted".'
Category = Politics |
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Motherhood - how should we care for our
children? by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 215 |
(US feminist and psychologist Louise Silverstein)
wrote in American Psychologist, 'Psychologists must refuse to undertake any
more research that looks for the negative consequences of [care] other than mothercare.' Instead, Silverstein argued, they should put their efforts
solely into looking at the 'negative effects of not providing high-quality
affordable day care.'
Category = Politics |
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Motherhood - how should we care for our
children? by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 217-218 |
(Eminent developmental psychologist Edward)
Zigler is clearly worried by infants in daycare. They cannot tell their
parents what is happening; it is a vulnerable time of life; attachment bonds
are being formed; there are now clear, well-documented health risks in group
care. 'Placing and infant in supplementary care at a few weeks of age is, we
believe, an unwise practice which cannot be sanctioned by the research to
date.' His tone in a later article is desperate: 'We are cannibalising
children. Children are dying in the system, never mind achieving optimum
development'.
Category = Danger, Politics |
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Motherhood - how should we care for our
children? by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 218 |
(Jay Belsky wrote) I'm a pariah. I violated the
Eleventh Commandment of developmental pyschology--Thou Shalt Not Speak Any
Ill Of Daycare, Whatsoever, Ever'.
Category =
politics |
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Motherhood - how should we care for our
children? by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 221 |
Deborah Vandell and Mary A. Corasaniti, studying
all social classes, income levels and marital status, 'found third grade
children who had had thirty or more hours of daycare begun some time in
infancy scored the lowest in emotional wellbeing, work habits, peer
relations and compliance'. Karen reports: 'Vandell had an arduous time
getting this study published, more so than any of her other work, which
surprised her, "because I'd never had such strong findings".'
Category = Behavior, Development, Politics |
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Motherhood - how should we care for our
children? by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 221 |
Another study by Jack Bates in Indiana found that
the more daycare a child had at any age, the more likely the child 'is to
display problematic levels of aggression'. Bates also said there was nothing
in his data 'to suggest middle-class families can be sanguine* on this
subject'.
*Sanguine = optimistic
Category = Behavior |
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Motherhood - how should we care for our
children? by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 221-222 |
It is often claimed that the only negative
results are found in American daycare where care quality is poor. That is
not so. Patricia Morgan fills an entire book, Who Needs Parents?, with a
summary of negative evidence up to 1996, including a lot of material from
Britain.
Category = Politics |
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Motherhood - how should we care for our
children? by Anne Manne,
©2005, p. 222 |
In the years following the publication of
Patricia Morgan's book, many more studies have found the link between
extensive care in infancy, especially group care, and more problematic child
outcomes. Even in Scandinavia the link was found.
Category = Behavior, Development, Quality |
