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Rethinking the Early Childcare agenda
by Dr. Peter S. Cook,
Medical Journal of Australia,
1999, 170:29-31 |
I argue here that for children up to 2½ to 3 years of age, and particularly
during infancy, this agenda of subsidised, universally available, high
quality professional childcare (daycare) is misconceived, and a rethink is
needed. Evidence suggests that this agenda:
- Is unrealistic (eg, high quality childcare for all is not affordable);
- Overlooks accumulating evidence of risks of undesirable outcomes
sometimes associated with early childcare;
- Is contrary to much expert opinion about what is likely to be best for
infants;
- Is contrary to the desire of many working mothers to care for their
own children, if they could afford it; and
- Relies partly on the now-discredited ideology of cultural determinism.
Category = Behavior,
Economics,
Politics,
Quality |
Rethinking the Early Childcare agenda
by Dr. Peter S. Cook,
Medical Journal of Australia,
1999, 170:29-31 |
This childcare (day-care) agenda relies partly on the now-discredited
ideology of cultural determinism, which taught that human nature is
culturally determined by social conditioning, denying evolutionary and
biological influences. Yet the needs of infants and their mothers, as
mothers, are based in our genes and cannot be refashioned to suit
ideologies.
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Politics,
Quality |
Rethinking the Early Childcare agenda
by Dr. Peter S. Cook,
Medical Journal of Australia,
1999, 170:29-31 |
Large-scale institutional, long-daycare rearing of
babies and very young children by professionals offering no continuing
relationship with them is without successful precedent in the history of our
species.
When the evidence and professional opinion agree that mothers are the best
people to care for their young children, it seems neither wise nor
cost-effective for governments to spend large sums of money subsidising
childcare for mothers who would prefer to be helped to care for their
infants themselves.
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