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Who cares about the kids? Heroes do
by Eric Utne, Utne Reader,
May/June 1993, page 2 |
Would we leave our kids with someone else
(daycare)
if we knew doing so was harmful
and perhaps damaging to them?
Unlike most other cultures throughout history and across the planet,
Americans are leaving the custodial care as well as the moral education of
their young to underpaid, under qualified, overworked proxies.
Category = Quality |
Children of the Universe Good Parenting benefits
the Community, as well as kids by Amitai Etzioni quoting Edward Zigler,
professor of Child Development at Yale,
Utne
Reader, May/June 1993,
page 54 |
Child-care workers are in the lowest 10th of all wage earners, well below
janitors...As Edward Zigler put it, "We pay these
people less than we do zookeepers -- and then we expect them to do wonders."
The personnel come and go, at a rate of 41 percent per year at an average
day-care center.
Category = Quality |
Children of the Universe,
Utne
Reader,
May/June 1993, page 54 |
It would be far from inaccurate to call the worst of these (child-care)
facilities kennels for kids.
Category = Quality |
Children of the Universe,
Utne
Reader,
May/June 1993,page 54 |
Young infants, under 2 years old, are particularly vulnerable to separation
anxiety. Several bodies of data strongly indicate that infants who are
institutionalized (in daycares) at a young age will not mature into
well-adjusted adults. As Edward Zigler puts it, "We are cannibalizing
children. Children are dying in the system, never mind achieving optimum
development."
Unless the parents are absent or abusive, children are better off at home.
Older children, between 2 and 4, may be able to handle some measure of
institutionalization in child-care centers, but their personalities often
seem to unformed to be able to cope well with a nine-to-five separation from
a parent.
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