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The Brave New World of Childcare
by Charles N. Siegel,
posted 28-Jul-98 on www.bconnex.net/~cspcc/daycare/brave.htm
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But before we enter Aldous Huxley's Brave New
World* and send an entire generation of
children off to day care centers, we need to reflect a little more deeply on
what such a radical departure in child-rearing practices would mean for the
family and society...
a society where all the adults are at nine-to-five jobs and where all the
children are at day-care centers, schools, or after-school programs all day,
every day…(even though) two-thirds of those families would rather care for
their own children if that were economically possible.
*A. Huxley's horrific science fiction novel's
vision of the future, published in 1932
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Who’s Care by Penelope Leach
28-Jul-98
www.bconnex.net/~cspcc/daycare/care.htm
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…there are "lollypop wards" offering
emergency daycare when children's fevers and colds would otherwise keep them
(and a parent) at home. Once we forget that babies need their mothers or
beloved mother-figures, it is easy to forget that to put a sick baby into a
stranger's hands is cruelty.
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Who’s Care by Penelope Leach
28-Jul-98
www.bconnex.net/~cspcc/daycare/care.htm |
…childcare is low-paid, demanding work. In group
settings employers fight to keep staff by improving conditions, but every
concession to adult needs reduces fulfillment of children's. Split-shifts to
cover the long nursery day reduce adult hours by doubling the number of
people with whom babies must interact. Lunch breaks, sick leave, vacations
and in-service training course, produce such constant staff movement that
case studies suggest an average of seven different people a day and fifteen
a week (some of them strangers "filling in") handling each child. And still
they leave: the "mother figure" in charge of each "family group" may change
three times in a year.
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Who’s Care by Penelope Leach
28-Jul-98
www.bconnex.net/~cspcc/daycare/care.htm |
When you cope with two or three at once (as in a
day-care), there is no way you can simultaneously respond to messages about
milk, cuddles, and dropped toys. (ask anyone who has triplets). That is not
something our present society readily acknowledges, though. After all,
one-to-one care by someone outside the family offers no economies of scale*.
If it releases anyone to fill the skill-shortage it does so only by leaving
babies with less-skilled - or at least less well paid adults, an
uncomfortably colonialist (exploitation of a
weaker by a stronger) thought.
*Economies of scale - These occur when mass
producing a good results in lower average cost. The more of a good you
produce, the less it costs for each additional unit. for example, a
plant that produces 1000 cars would be more efficient than a plant producing
five cars.
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