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DSS (Dept. of Social
Services) chose daycare for infant, over a foster family,
by Andrew Schultz, The Tribune Papers - Asheville Tribune
18-Jul-02 |
A poll of U.S. pediatricians, conducted by the
Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine in 1990, claims that 77% believe infants
six months or younger should receive care only at home. A peer survey of
1,100 baby doctors, carried out by the American Academy of Pediatricians,
reported a majority of physicians consider full-time daycare to be harmful
for children under age 4.
Category =
Disease |
DSS (Dept. of Social
Services) chose daycare for infant, over a foster family,
by Andrew Schultz, The Tribune Papers - Asheville Tribune
18-Jul-02 |
James Horwitz, M.D., Rainbow Pediatrics P.A....believes
daycare “has a very negative side.” Children who attend daycare will have
health concerns often avoided by those who stay at home, he says.
Category =
Disease |
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Mothering Matters by Peter
S. Cook, The Australian,
24-Jul-02 |
So non-maternal childcare,
whatever its quality, is associated with important risks.
The NICHD* researchers warned that even modest
adverse effects on behaviour can have serious social consequences when large
numbers of children are affected.
NICHD studies also found that when children spent more
time in childcare, their mothers displayed less sensitivity when interacting
with them...
...Early childcare also precludes longer breastfeeding...
NICHD = US
National Institute for Child Health and Development
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Behavior |
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Mothering Matters by Peter
S. Cook, The Australian, 24-Jul-02 |
Healthy mothering includes breastfeeding,
holding, carrying, attachment bonds, and making infants feel loved.
These basic needs of infants are hardly met in
institutional childcare, especially when profits must be maximised in
private centres. Professor Jay Belsky, a distinguished member of the NICHD
Network, described a staff ratio* of one carer to five infants under
(age) two as nobody's idea of quality, but
rather a licence to neglect.
*The New South Wales Australia standard
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Quality |
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Mothering Matters by Peter
S. Cook, The Australian, 24-Jul-02 |
Childcare is now one of Australia's most
profitable growth "industries" (Business Review Weekly, Rich
200, May 2002).
...We pay almost anyone to look after infants except
their mothers.
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Economics, Politics |
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Big business has discovered McKids
by Anne Manne, The Age (of Melbourne, Australia),
23-Nov-02 |
Talking with a child-care consultant
once, I mentioned an American child psychologist, Ron Lally, whose research
showed that the overall size of a creche matters. For children "small is
beautiful". She burst out: "But Anne, those small centres are the least
economic." How quaint for me to assert children's needs over economic logic!
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Economics, Quality |
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Big business has discovered McKids
by Anne Manne, The Age (of Melbourne, Australia),
23-Nov-02 |
Crucial to the booming child-care
industry is the $8 billion of taxpayers' money to be outlaid via the Federal
Government's child-care benefit over the next four years. Up to $133 a week
per child for low-income families and around $61.60 for a typical family, it
is paid direct to the centre. Alongside that massive taxpayer subsidy,
however, is an ideological subsidy of immeasurable value, bestowed by
feminism. A political forcefield repels any negative evidence about child
care.
Negative findings are always ferociously attacked.
The dust settles, our consciences are cleared and it is back to business as
usual. And big business at that. There has always been considerable tension
between for-profit child care and child wellbeing. The present
McDonaldisation threatens a collision.
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Economics, Politics |
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Big business has discovered McKids
by Anne Manne, The Age (of Melbourne, Australia),
23-Nov-02 |
Anne Summers recently noted that Child
Care Centres Australia was hostile to paid maternity leave; by allowing
mothers to stay home longer, it reduced demand.
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Economics, Politics |
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Big business has discovered McKids
by Anne Manne, The Age (of Melbourne, Australia),
23-Nov-02 |
McDonaldising child care is certainly,
as the consultant suggested, more economically efficient than...that archaic
arrangement of one mother with a few of her own children rambling about on
the suburban half-acre.
Now we can cram 60-100 kids on that same half-acre, put in a skeleton staff
of unrelated caregivers, get mums as well as dads "maximising their human
capital" in the workforce, earning money that plumps the pockets of Peacock,
Groves* et al. Child-care consultants do nicely
too. Happiness all round, really. Except, of course, for the children.
Category =
Economics, Politics, Quality
*Owners of large
Australian daycare center chains |
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Daycare stocks cutting teeth by Peter
Shawn Taylor, The Financial Post (Canada), 9-Dec-02 |
"I ethically dislike the notion of
making money on a children's service," says Alma Fleet, head of the
Institute of Early Childhood at Sydney's Macquarie University. "People
who make money from childcare (daycare) do not have as their first priority
the best interests of the local community."
Category =
Economics, Politics |
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