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The Trojan Horse of Child Care
by Allan Carlson, Ph.D, The Howard Center for Family
Religion & Society,
www.profam.org, 29-Jan-98 |
Substitute child care, in contrast,
depends on state subsidy. "Safe, affordable, accessible quality care"...is
very expensive.
...State subsidy is necessary, at the margins, to make this system of
weakened families and communal child care hold together. G.K. Chesterton was
right: There is no economic sense in taking in each
other's small children. Ideology and politics, not the marketplace, drives
our child care debate. Subsidized non-parental care of infants
and toddlers has become in 1998 the Trojan Horse* for building the complete
welfare state.
*A subversive group or
device placed within enemy ranks (from the hollow wooden horse in which,
according to legend, Greeks hid and gained entrance to Troy, later opening
the gates to their army.)
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The Trojan Horse of Child Care
by Allan Carlson, Ph.D, The Howard Center for Family
Religion & Society,
www.profam.org, 29-Jan-98 |
Significantly, Dr. Greenspan shows that the very
nature of child care centers--even excellent and expensive ones--deny three
of these critical six needs (ongoing intimate relationships; lengthy
emotional dialogues; and long problem-solving discussions with gestures). If
your concern is the development of babies and toddlers into healthy,
capable, well-adjusted, and productive adults, substitute child care is not
only inferior, but damaging to human potential, both economic and personal.
Category =
Quality |
The Trojan Horse of Child Care
by Allan Carlson, Ph.D, The Howard Center for Family
Religion & Society,
www.profam.org, 29-Jan-98 |
To this we need add the overwhelming evidence
that commercial child care also poses a special threat to the physical and
mental health of children. Children in day care are at nearly 100 percent
increased risk for contracting serious, life-threatening diseases such as
hemophilus influenza and meningitis. They are four-and-a-half times more
likely than home-cared children to contract infections, and nearly three
times as likely to need hospitalization. Children in commercial care are
also much more at risk of contracting upper respiratory tract infections,
gastrointestinal disorders, ear infections, mycobacterium tuberculosis,
salmonella, Herpes simplex, rubella, hepatitus A & B, scabies, dwarf
tapeworm, pinworms, and diarrhea. Indeed, a recent special issue of the
journal PEDIATRICS ANNALS, was devoted to day care diseases, and carried a
lead editorial entitled: "Day Care, Day Care: May Day! May Day!" It
chronicled the enormous public health problems, a virtual epidemic of
childhood disease, caused by this national turn to substitute child care.
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Behavior, Disease |
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