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Emptying the Nest:
The Clinton Child Care Agenda by Charmaine Crouse Yoest, Family Research Council,
frc.org, 1998, pg. 10-11 |
On the opposite end of the spectrum from the
relatively benign otitis media is the cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, which
is also closely, and dangerously, associated with day care.
Children attending day care are infected with CMV two to three times more
often than children at home. In fact, one
study reported in Pediatrics found that half of the children in large
day care centers have active CMV infections.
This is a serious problem because CMV is the
leading cause of congenital infection worldwide; approximately 10 percent of
infants infected prenatally have significant complications.
Unfortunately, controlling the spread of the infection is very difficult
because children who contract the virus are asymptomatic*
95 percent of the time. As a result, in addition to the threat posed
to child care workers, children can unwittingly
carry the virus home and spread it to their unborn siblings through their
mothers.
*asymptomatic - showing no evidence or
symptoms of disease
Category = Disease |
Emptying the Nest:
The Clinton Child Care Agenda by Charmaine Crouse Yoest, Family Research Council,
frc.org, 1998, pg. 11 |
There is also some concern among researchers that
increased usage of day care may be contributing to the alarming rise in
asthma cases in the last decade.
Category = Disease |
Emptying the Nest:
The Clinton Child Care Agenda by Charmaine Crouse Yoest, Family Research Council,
frc.org, 1998, pg. 11 |
Children must be exposed to many germs
eventually, but their susceptibility to serious illness decreases with age.
Pneumonia in a five-year-old is an entirely different proposition from
pneumonia in an infant. As a result, the health literature does
document some sad and troubling cases of transmission of tuberculosis, and
fatal cases of pneumonia and invasive group A
streptococcus among infants directly attributable to day care attendance.
Category =
Disease |
Emptying the Nest:
The Clinton Child Care Agenda by Charmaine Crouse Yoest, Family Research Council,
frc.org, 1998, pg. 13 |
...we would do well to approach the issue of
child care with an eye to the Law of Unintended Consequences. As the federal
government continues increasing its subsidy of non-parental care of infants
and toddlers, what will happen? The data on day care usage are already
providing evidence that the child care market is responding predictably with
a shift toward the subsidized product (i.e., daycare).
Category = Politics |
Emptying the Nest:
The Clinton Child Care Agenda by Charmaine Yoest, Family Research Council,
frc.org, 1998, pg. 13 |
Federal intervention in child care for American
children should be guided by what parents want and what children need. At
the very least, the government should be neutral and avoid social
engineering that skews the child care market by emphasizing and underwriting
commercial, institutional and bureaucratized (daycare) solutions.
Category = Politics |
Emptying the Nest:
The Clinton Child Care Agenda by Charmaine Yoest, Family Research Council,
frc.org, 1998, pg. 13 |
What do parents want? They want to care for
their own children. Yet our federal policy underwrites only paid child
care. What do children need? Children cannot speak for themselves, but we
know what they need. They need enduring relationships with people who are
crazy about them. Yet our federal policy
prefers the care of hired strangers (in daycare). |
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