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Children of the Universe Good Parenting benefits the Community,
as well as kids by Amitai Etzioni,
Utne
Reader, May/June
1993, page 55 |
As a person who grew up in Israel, I am sometimes asked whether it is true
that kibbutzim (Ideal
day-care) succeeded in bringing up toddlers in child-care centers. I
need to note first that, unlike the personnel in American child-care
centers, the people who care for children on a kibbutz are some of the most
dedicated members of the work force, because these communities consider
child care to be a very high priority. As a result, child-care positions are
highly sought after and there is little turnover, which allows for essential
bonding to take place. In addition, both parents are intimately involved in
bringing up their children, and they frequently visit the child-care
centers, which are located very close to where they live and work.
Even so, Israeli
kibbutzim are rapidly dismantling their collective child-care centers and
returning children to live with their families -- because both
the families and the community established that even a limited
disassociation of children from their parents at a tender age is
unacceptable.
Category = Quality |
Children of the Universe, Utne
Reader,
May/June 1993, page 60 |
A typical finding is that infants who were subject to 20 hours a week of
non-parental care (daycare) are insecure in their relationship with their parents at
the end of the first year, and more likely to be aggressive between the ages
of 3 and 8.
Category = Behavior, Quality |
Day care: A grand and troubling social experiment by Dorothy Conniff,
Utne Reader,
May/June 1993, page 66 |
With four or more babies to each worker,
it's mostly crowd control at day-care centers.
-- Dorothy Conniff,
daycare worker, administrator for 20 years
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Day care: A grand and troubling social experiment,
Utne Reader, May/June 1993 page 66 |
We have abundant research about the lasting negative effects of early
deprivation...
Yet today we shuffle millions of middle-class children off to day care
settings duplicating the sort of deprivation that used to be suffered only
by the poorest and most disadvantaged.
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Day care: A grand and troubling social experiment,
Utne Reader, May/June 1993 page 67 |
We have no idea how destructive a situation we have created. (Day-care) is a
social experiment on a grand scale with virtually no controls.
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