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The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister,
The American Enterprise
May/June 1998,
page 25 |
Day care advocates often claim that
the kinds of problems I've been discussing in this chapter can be eliminated
via more licensing and regulation. The trouble is, there are
already lots of fully regulated--and fully disappointing--day care homes and
centers out there. That's because most of the
things that really matter to young children, if we're honest about it,
simply can't be covered by regulations.
Category = Regulations, Quality |
The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister, The American Enterprise
May/June 1998,
page
27 |
The common claim that Europe is carpeted
with day care institutions that are consistently wonderful and highly
popular is simply not true. Europeans strongly prefer parental and family
care to the alternatives. Most still provide such care to their own
children. And the institutional care funded by the European
governments tends to be mediocre and impersonal just like
institutional care everywhere else.
Category =
Quality |
The Problem with Daycare
by Karl Zinsmeister, The American Enterprise
May/June 1998
page
27 |
There is no easy
way, public or private, to buy for individual children the kind of loving
concern that has never been for sale.
Category =
Economics, Quality |
What do Parents Want?
by Charmaine Yoest, The American Enterprise: Discovering
Motherhood, May/June 1998 |
If helping poor families is the goal,...day care
subsidies are a very poor instrument.
...Since most low-income families don't purchase child care,...federal
subsidies...offer them nothing. Benefits targeted to day care...not
only discriminate against low- and middle-income American families who are
struggling to keep one parent at home, but also reach only the tiniest
fraction of families with children in poverty.
Category =
Politics |
What do Parents Want?
by Charmaine Yoest, The American Enterprise: Discovering
Motherhood, May/June 1998 |
Federal intervention in child care should be
guided by what parents want and what children need. At the very
least, the government should be neutral and avoid social engineering that
skews the child care market toward the commercial, institutional, and
bureaucratized solutions that most parents avoid.
Category =
Politics |
