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The Price of Day Care Can Be
High
by David Leonhardt, The New York Times,
14-Jun-06 |
Starting in
1997, the Quebec Family Policy subsidized day care for 4-year-olds at
government-approved centers around the province. By 2000, the program had
expanded to cover any child not old enough for kindergarten, all the way
down to infants. This is universal day care...
Almost a decade after the family policy started, however, there was still a
big mystery about it. Nobody had done the work to find out how it had
affected children. The province was spending $1.4 billion a year on a
grand social experiment, yet no one had bothered to look at the results.
So three economists took up the challenge a few years ago, realizing that
the program offered an excellent way to examine a much-debated topic. The
three — Michael Baker and Kevin Milligan, who are Canadian, and Jonathan
Gruber, an American — collected data, looked at various measures of
well-being since the program started and compared Quebec with the rest of
Canada over the same period.
When they finished last year, the answer seemed clear. "Across almost
everything we looked at," said Mr. Gruber, an M.I.T., professor, "the
policy led to much worse outcomes for kids."
Young children in Quebec are more anxious and aggressive than they were a
decade ago, even though children elsewhere in Canada did not show big
changes. Quebec children also learn to use a toilet, climb stairs and count
to three at later ages, on average, than they once did.
Before you dismiss the researchers as just three more men starting a new
assault in the mommy wars, listen to Jane Waldfogel, a leading child-policy
researcher (Columbia professor) and the author of the book, What Children
Need (Harvard University Press). "This is a very high-quality
paper by high-quality guys," she said. "They're very careful. This is a
paper that's going to stand."
Category =
Behavior, Development, Politics, Quality |
Giving Day-Care Cash to Stay-at-Home
Parents...
Elena Cherney, The Wall Street Journal, 3-Jul-06
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(The Canadian
Government) scrapped a multibillion dollar plan...to set up a national
day-care system. Instead, the government will start mailing a monthly cash
payment...to parents for every child younger than six years old.
...a spokeswoman for Human Resources and Social Development Ministr(y said)
"It is not intended to persuade women to make one decision or the other.
It's designed to support women in the choices that they make."
Category =
Politics |
The death of motherhood
Melanie Gill, The Daily Mail (Britain)
20-Jul-06 |
It is nothing short of
grotesque that some women are going back into jobs just six weeks after
giving birth, abandoning their offspring to the care of a stranger in a
nursery or childcare centre.
A host of reputable scientific surveys show that this physical neglect of
children by their own mothers is doing untold psychological and neurological
damage. Babies are born with their brains only partially formed, and we now
know that they need the direct stimulus of their mothers' attention to
develop properly.
Category =
Development, Politics |
The death of motherhood
Melanie Gill, The Daily Mail (Britain)
20-Jul-06 |
Childcare for the
under-threes has become one of the great growth industries in modern
Britain, as women return to the workplace sooner and sooner after giving
birth. But it is storing up untold damage for the future as the bonding
process lies in ruins.
Category =
Behavior, Economics |
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Expand parental leave, not day
care by Cynthia Whitfield, The Register-Guard
(Eugene, Oregon),
06-Aug-06 |
In poll after poll, parents say they're
not spending enough time with their kids. Two in three workers say they
would give up some pay for more time with their families, according to a
Harvard study.
Rather than heeding this call, businesses and members of the child care
industry are pushing for more child care, even sick child care, instead of
trying to find ways to better meet the needs of families.
According to Anne Manne, author of Motherhood: How Should We Care for Our
Children, "There is an almost complete disconnect between science and
politics on the child care question. We should be expanding parental leave,
not infant day care."
Category = Politics |
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Expand parental leave, not day
care by Cynthia Whitfield, The Register-Guard,
06-Aug-06 |
Another problem is the high caregiver
turnover common in the day care industry. This interferes with bonding, and
may lead to a reduced capacity to develop higher reasoning skills, the
authors say.
If at all possible, infant day care should not exceed 30 hours a week,
(famous child care experts) Brazelton and Greenspan agree. Other experts
suggest 20 or even fewer hours.
Category = Development, Quality |
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Expand parental leave, not day
care by Cynthia Whitfield, The Register-Guard,
06-Aug-06 |
...a recent British government-funded
study conducted by the University of London's Institute of Education, found
that "high levels of group care before the age of 3, and particularly
before the age of 2, were associated with higher levels of antisocial
behavior at age 3."
It also found that while high quality care could reduce the
"antisocial/worried behavior," it could not eliminate it.
Another British study showed the stress hormone cortisol is 75 to 100
percent higher in the saliva of children attending day care, even after
months of adapting to center-based care. Excessive levels of cortisol can
compromise brain function and lead to physical problems.
Category = Behavior |
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Expand parental leave, not day
care by Cynthia Whitfield, The Register-Guard,
06-Aug-06 |
Both British
and American parents consistently overrate the quality of care their
children receive, according to child care experts. Experts theorize that
parents may be afraid of appearing uncaring if they express dissatisfaction
with the place where they drop their children off every day.
Category = Politics |
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Expand parental leave, not day
care by Cynthia Whitfield, The Register-Guard,
06-Aug-06 |
Scandinavian
nations subsidize paid parental leave as a better alternative to day care
for the youngest children, although subsidized day care is also readily
available. Since parents are given a real choice, there is very little use
of child care until children are 18 months old.
Category = Politics |
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Expand parental leave, not day
care by Cynthia Whitfield, The Register-Guard,
06-Aug-06 |
Parents may
find it difficult to access adequate information about day care in today's
media. Studies purporting to show that children in day care suffer no
long-lasting emotional damage are widely reported, without comments from
experts with a dissenting view.
Conversely, studies critical of child care routinely send reporters running
to seek comments from day care advocates.
Category = Politics |
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