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Concerns about Child Care-Part 2
by BILL MUEHLENBERG , National Observer (Australia), 22-Sep-03 |
This raises the question of equity. Why should
mothers who choose to stay at home with their young children receive little
or no financial support, while mothers who put their children into formal
day care and return to the paid work force get various benefits, subsidies
and financial assistance for doing so?
...Why this discrimination? Governments should not be in the business of
showing partiality to one kind of mother over another. It should treat all
of them fairly. This is not a call for special favours or rights for stay at
home mothers, simply equity and fairness.
Category = Politics |
Concerns about Child Care-Part 2
by BILL MUEHLENBERG , National Observer (Australia), 22-Sep-03 |
One Stanford University psychologist has remarked
that with the mass exodus of children into day care, "we are altering the
cultural fabric" of society.
Category = Politics |
Daycare Doesn't Reduce Poverty,British Medical Journal
Oct 20, 2003 |
A new study shows providing daycare for the children of poor mothers may not
improve their financial situation.
Category = Economics |
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Daycare Doesn't Reduce Poverty,
British Medical Journal,
Oct 20, 2003 |
Researchers in London studied 120 mothers and more than 140 children.
The children were assigned to an intervention group or a control group.
Those in the intervention group were provided with a high quality daycare
facility, while those in the control group attended other facilities chosen
by their parents.
...the intervention group children were more likely to develop ear
infections in one or both ears and were more likely to visit a health care
professional for a medical concern.
Category = Disease |
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Daycare Doesn't Reduce Poverty,
British Medical Journal,
Oct 20, 2003 |
...Researchers say although more women in the intervention group found
paying jobs, offering childcare did not seem to increase household income.
Category = Economics |
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Introduction, p.v., /Brian Robertson,
Family Policy Review, Volume 1,
Number 2, Fall 2003 (The Child-Care 'Crisis' and Its Remedies) |
We do not share this vision of society that regards a professional class of
day-care workers as adequate replacements for parents and an institutional
setting as just as desirable an environment for children as the home setting
of the natural family.
Category = Quality |
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"The Fractured Dream of Social
Parenting" by Allan C. Carlson,
page 19-20, Family Policy Review, Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 2003 (The
Child-Care 'Crisis' and Its Remedies) |
...day care proves in practice to rest on class exploitation.
...a large art of the modern American child-care regime involves wealthy
two-income families using tax subsidies to place their children in
child-care centers staffed by low-wage female workers.
...twenty-first-century American child-care workers are commonly the poorest
of the poor...
Category = Economics |
"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)
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...the risks posed to infant and
child health by day care are not going
away. True, massive regimens of antibiotics for all the children involved
make the short-term situation often tolerable. But children in day care
still are at nearly 100-percent-greater risk for contracting
life-threatening diseases such as hemophilus influenza and meningitis. They
are four-and-a-half times more likely than home-cared children to
contract
infections and nearly three times as likely to need
hospitalization. Day
care children are significantly more at risk of contracting upper
respiratory tract infections, gastrointestinal disorders, ear infections,
salmonella, herpes simplex, rubella, hepatitus (sic) A & B, scabies, dwarf
tapeworm, pinworms, and diarrhea. And antibiotics are a fading asset;
virulent new strains of disease resistant to these drugs now find their way
into the centers.
Category = Disease |
