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How to End 'Momism': Free Day Care and Less Work!
by
Daniel Indiviglio,
The Atlantic, 29 Jun 2011 |
Universal Day Care - The premise here is that the taxpayers
should pay not only for the elementary through high school education of
children, but also for their care from virtually the moment they're born.
There are a few big practical problems with this idea. First, it would
drastically change the current day care industry. Different day care
providers in different areas charge different fees for their services. Does
the government provide vouchers? Will tax credits work?
Neither of these possibilities seems particularly likely if fair and equal
access to day care is sought. Instead the government would have to create
public day care facilities, just like you have public schools. Raise your
hand if you want the government to take care of your baby. I suspect most
people reading this kept their hands down. The government can't even balance
its checkbook. I wouldn't let it watch my dog.
Universal day care shifts U.S. child care even further in the collectivist
direction...
Category = Politics, Quality |
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Mother Superior? The biological effects of day care,
by Dr. Aric Sigman, The Biologist, 58(3) 28-32, Sep
2011. |
The accepted starting point for any national discussion of
childcare is one of a "work-childcare balance" involving "affordable day
care". Even many of those forging academic careers in the study of day care
are apparently being held back by their own young children. "Tiny tots can
prove formidable foes* to a woman's academic career aspirations...states a
Special Report in Nature 2005"
Category = Politics
*Very alliterative, but does this
person really think young children are enemies ( formidable
foes)? --
ed. |
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Mother Superior? The biological effects of day care,
by Dr. Aric Sigman, The Biologist, 58(3) p29, Sep
2011. |
But day care is an evolutionary novelty bearing no
resemblance to childcare throughout history or in modern traditional
societies. Understanding the effects day care has on children has been
hindered by bitter politicised arguments involving womens's rights,
governmental desire for economic growth, maternal guilt and the media's
portrayal of day care study findings. Some researchers who have voiced
concerns about the effects of day care have been attacked...
However, the uncomfortable question remains--which is better for a young
child during weekdays: the biological mother or a paid carer at an
institution?
Category = Politics, Quality |
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Mother Superior? The biological effects of day care,
by Dr. Aric Sigman, The Biologist, 58(3) p29, Sep
2011. |
But what has proved elusive is an understanding of how the
young child is affected emotionally and biologically, and how they
experience day care while they are actually there. Babies can't speak and
toddlers have limited verbal abilities...
Category = Behavior, Development,
Disease |
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Mother Superior? The biological effects of day care,
by Dr. Aric Sigman, The Biologist, 58(3) p31, Sep
2011. |
Attending a childcare centre, and the consequent separation
from parents, is a significant source of stress for many young children.
And the negative effects of day care may be long lasting.
Category = Behavior, Development, Disease |
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Mother Superior? The biological effects of day care,
by Dr. Aric Sigman, The Biologist, 58(3) p32, Sep
2011. |
And so, as we embrace early day care ever further, we should
remind ourselves that when it comes to an issue of such fundamental
importance we must continue to adhere to that ancient medical imperative,
"First do no harm", and assume that mother knows best.
Category = Politics, Quality |
Will America Ever Be Ready for the Truth about Daycare?,
by Suzanne Venker, National Review Online,
1 Feb 2012. |
Besides abortion, no subject in America is more divisive than
daycare — that’s why it’s rarely discussed in the media. That, and the fact
that most of the women in the media rely on substitute care for their babies
and toddlers in order to do what they do every day; thus, they’re hardly in
a position to address the matter in an unbiased manner.
“Academics, pediatricians, and other experts have learned to keep a prudent
silence about the risks of day care, and so it is the daycare advocates —
and only the advocates we hear from on our television screens and in our
parenting magazines,” writes Diane Fisher, P.D.
Category = Politics |
Will America Ever Be Ready for the Truth about Daycare?,
by Suzanne Venker, National Review Online,
1 Feb 2012. |
The truth is that daycare is one of the
greatest tragedies of modern America. We’ve become immune to its reality
because we have to. When something becomes a bona fide trend, sanctioned by
the masses, what else can we do but succumb to it. So rather than face the
truth, politicians and pundits talk about ways to improve it — as if it
could be. “America suffers a growing national epidemic of parental absence
and disconnection. ‘Quality’ in day care cannot solve the problem. It
doesn’t even address it,” writes Dr. Fisher.
Even one of America’s premier child psychologists, Dr. Stanley Greenspan,
says America has struggled to improve daycare for 20 years — to no avail.
Category = Politics, Quality |
Will America Ever Be Ready for the Truth about Daycare?,
by Suzanne Venker, National Review Online,
1 Feb 2012. |
And (daycare is) far from harmless or beneficial to children.
If you think it is, if you’ve bought in to the new American lexicon that
says children in daycare are better socialized or, like President Obama
suggests, better prepared for kindergarten, you’re burying your head in the
sand in defense of someone you love. You know it. I know it. Why don’t we
just say it?
Category = Development, Politics,
Quality |
Last updated:
06/17/2012
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