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Does Mom matter? "Politically
Direct" column by Jane Chastain. www.worldnetdaily.com, 1999 |
Daycare workers by necessity, are paid
less than their moms (a group of mothers using a group of daycare
workers) make in the work force. Otherwise, there would be no
financial incentive to work.
Category =
Economics |
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Does Mom matter? "Politically
Direct" column by Jane Chastain. www.worldnetdaily.com, 1999 |
If you are like most parents, however, the one
thing that you really care about passing on to your children is your values.
If a daycare worker raises your children, whose values are
they going to absorb -- yours or hers?
Category =
Behavior |
Parenting: A School of Virtue (Temperance)*
by Janet Smith, Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of Dallas, goodmorals.org, ©1999
(*Temperance is the virtue that requires the tempering
(moderation) of one's desires). |
One of the little-recognized negatives about
daycare is that daycare makes it more difficult to acquire some of the
virtues of parenting. Those who place their children in daycare spend
most of their time with their children in the few hours in the evening after
a full day of work. They are tired from work and the children are often worn
out from being in daycare. This reduced time available for being with
one’s children may have a significant impact on how one relates to one’s
children.
Category =
Quality |
Parenting: A School of Virtue (Temperance)
by Janet Smith, goodmorals.org, ©1999 |
The day-care parent becomes accustomed to
discharging responsibilities through the professional offices of another;
parenting becomes something that one hires out rather than what one does
himself. (And should we “hire out” an activity of such
importance?) It is difficult for parenting to remain a central
focus in the lives of working parents because the stresses and
obligations of the workplace are quite enough to dominate their thoughts.
Because they have less time with the children, they develop less patience
with them...
Category =
Quality |
Parenting: A School of Virtue (Temperance)
by Janet Smith, goodmorals.org, ©1999 |
Those who place their children in daycare may
be in danger of thinking of themselves as a couple with children, not
as a family.
Category =
Quality |
