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 The Communists in Russia were the first to experiment with
society-wide collective child-rearing.
"The resulting social and
economic disaster brought on by this perverse attempt at social
engineering showed the dangers and costs of manipulating human nature".
-- "The Fractured Dream of Social Parenting" by
Allan C. Carlson, page 19, Family Policy Review, Volume 1, Number
2, Fall 2003 (The Child-Care 'Crisis' and Its Remedies)
"With socialism Engels* says, '[p]rivate housekeeping is transformed into a social
industry. The care...of the children becomes a public matter'"
-- Quoted from p 511 of Engels' 1884 tome, The Origin of the Family ,
Private Property and the State by Charles Siegler in What's Wrong
with Daycare: Freeing Parents to Raise Their Own Children
©2001
*Friederich
Engels, co-author of the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx
"..one of the first actions of the Institute for the Protection of
Motherhood and Childhood was to found factory nurseries for the
pre kindergarten child -- places where the mother could leave her children
on the way to work in the morning and receive them back again in the
evening. Such nurseries are known as 'crèches'..."
--
Protection of Women and Children in Soviet Russia, 1932 Chapter I
"Every Soviet citizen will be assigned to a crèche immediately upon
leaving the maternity home...."
--
Three Faces of Marxism, Wolfgang Leonhard, p179 English translation ©
1974
"Communist educators would have liked to take charge of children from the
day they were born, removing them from their parents and placing them in
communal nurseries. ...In 1921, Zlata Lilina, an official of the
Commissariat of Enlightenment, insisted that it was best for children to
be removed from their homes...'Raising children is not the private task of
parents, but the task of society.'"
--
Russia
under the Bolshevik Regime,
p331 by Richard Pipes ©1994
"to
free women from mothering, Kollontai dreamed of children growing up "in
the kindergarten, the children's colony, the crèche and the school..."
--
Individuals in Russia and the Soviet Union 1917-1945 Alexandra Kollontai, article by Leonora Ritter of
Australia's Charles Sturt University
"Lenin
advocated...'day nurseries, [and] kindergartens'...and complained that
even the Bolshevik press did too little to praise collective child-care
centers."
-- "The Fractured Dream of Social Parenting"
by Allan C. Carlson, page 2, Family Policy Review, Volume 1, Number
2, Fall 2003 (The Child-Care 'Crisis' and Its Remedies)
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