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"A Parental Bill of Rights" by Richard T. Gill,
page 130, Family Policy Review,
Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 2003 (The Child-Care 'Crisis' and Its Remedies)
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One important report
concludes: Child care at most centers in the
United States is
poor to mediocre, with
almost half of the infants and toddlers in rooms at less than minimal
quality.
Category = Quality |
"A Parental Bill of Rights" by Richard T. Gill,
page 132, Family Policy Review,
Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 2003 (The Child-Care 'Crisis' and Its Remedies)
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The handing off of our children in their earliest and most formative years
to a succession of impermanent, ever-changing, soon to be disappearing
caretakers is a formula for intensifying the shortened time horizons that
already seriously afflict America and, indeed, most Western societies
Category = Behavior |
The Case For Staying Home, Caught between the
pressures of the workplace and the demands of being a mom, more women are
sticking with the kids, Time Magazine, 22-Mar-04 |
Annik Miller...checked out day-care options for her son Alex, now 11 months.
"I had one woman look at me honestly and say she could promise that
my son
would get undivided attention eight times each day --
four bottles and four
diaper changes," says Miller.
Category = Quality |
Vive la Differénce! by Bill
Muehlenberg, News Weekly (Australia),
19-Jun-04, (Book review of Steven E. Rhoads' book,
Taking Sex Differences Seriously) |
The debate over day care also arises here. If mothers are best equipped by
nature to care for and nurture the young, then we should stop the rush to
let strangers raise our children.
The benefits to children of being looked after by mum for the first few
years are clearly documented. So whose interests do we put first in this
regard? The child's or the day-care industry?
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Vive la Differénce! by Allan Carlson, National
Review, 12-Jul-2004, p48 (Book review of Steven E. Rhoads' book,
Taking Sex Differences Seriously) |
Regarding day care, for example, Rhoads reports that "two-career families
who put children in subsidized day care apparently produce a near
tripling
of the odds that these children will be disobedient and aggressive -- hardly
a trend the government should support financially."
Category = Behavior, Politics |
The Trouble With Day Care
(Are Scientists Telling Parents the Whole Truth?) by Heide Lang,
Psychology Today, p17-18 May/June 2005 |
But the latest findings, from a huge, long-term government study, are
worrisome. They show that kids who spend long hours in day care have
behavior problems that persist well into elementary school.
...Developmental psychologists are sweeping this information under the rug,
hoping studies will churn out better data soon...
Recent evidence from the study shows that the total number of hours a child
is without a parent, from birth through preschool matters. The more time in
child care of any kind or quality, the more aggressive the child,
according to results published in Child Development.
What if, Belsky asks, "kids experiencing long hours in day care are more
likely to use drugs, are less ambitious and have trouble with relationships?
Parents will say, 'How come no one warned me?' It is our scientific
responsibility to tell people what they may not want to know.
Category = Behavior, Politics |
Who Cares? Making informed choices about childcare
by Vivienne Reiner, ByronChild Progressive Parenting (Australia),
p32-39 March-May 2005 |
As far back as the 1950s (Pioneering child psychiatrist John)
Bowlby found that failure to meet youngsters' needs to be with their primary
carer could result in 'grave personality disturbances--severe anxiety
conditions and psychopathic personality'. This was one of the observations
he made in the notes on his famous video, A Two-Year-Old Goes to Hospital,
which showed in graphic detail the torment an infant goes through when left
to cry without comfort from its mother. Bowlby also found depression was a
common response to separation.
...it was the beginning of what is commonly referred to today as attachment
parenting
Category = Behavior |
Who Cares? Making informed choices about childcare
by Vivienne Reiner, ByronChild Progressive Parenting (Australia),
p32-39 March-May 2005 |
In Baby on Board, published in 2003, Australian
babies' physician Howard Chilton tells of studies that show how
monkeys become
distressed when separated from their mothers...
When reunited, the babies become extremely clingy. If their mother looks
like she might leave, they throw a tantrum and become angry and agitated.
Moths later, they are still anxious, will not explore like the other
monkeys, seem depressed and are timid about changes in their cages.
Category = Behavior |
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