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Who's watching our children?,
by Safer Child, Inc., www.saferchild.org, 02-Jan-03 |
"Consider this: In 1998, according to...the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, some
5,700 children nationwide were victims of abuse or neglect at the hands of
their daycare providers... -- bad
as that number is, it is most certainly on the low side.
First, incidents of abuse and neglect are notoriously underreported.
Second, states aren't legally required to report detailed case information
to Washington (and in 1998, 30 of them [states] didn't)
Additionally -- unless police or Child Protection Services are notified --
it's practically impossible to find out what's happening in unlicensed
facilities.
So these 5,700 children are probably just the
tip on the tail of the daycare dog."
Category = Danger |
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Who's watching our children?,
by Safer Child, Inc., www.saferchild.org, 02-Jan-03 |
"This is our first peek at child care, and we
have to say it looks bad. We Americans spend a lot of time wondering
why our society is sliding downward into obesity, shallowness, rudeness,
violence and irresponsibility -- but we're failing to examine and account
for these critical first years of our children."
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Politics |
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Who's watching our children?,
by Safer Child, Inc., www.saferchild.org, 02-Jan-03 |
And any child who fights
with (several) other children for a caregiver's attention can't possibly be
getting the love nurturing, guidance and teaching necessary for becoming a
productive, happy member of this society.
Category = Quality |
News from Denmark: Small Danish
Children Have Poor Vocabulary
Royal Danish Embassy website
http://www.denmarkemb.org,
24-Jan-03 |
A new study of 4500 children between
eight and 15 months of age shows that Danish
children are far behind children in other countries when it comes to
language development. Small children
in the US, Spain, and Sweden understand twice as many words as Danish
children. Linguist Dorte Bleses, from the Center for Language Acquisition at
the University of Southern Denmark, who headed the study, says to the Danish
daily newspaper Fyens Stiftstidende that among other things the big
difference between Danish and foreign children is due to the fact that
Danish children spend more time in daycare than children in other countries.
“Firstly, daycare institutions are noisy making it difficult for
the children to concentrate,
and secondly, there are (too)
few adults
(for the many children)”, Dorte Bleses says.
Category = Development |
Daycare Can Be Risky for Kids,
Researcher Says
By Jim Brown,
28-Jan-03
http://agapepress.org/
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An ongoing government study has already shown
that there are serious detrimental effects of non-parental care for
children…
Brian Robertson is managing editor of a new publication called Family
Policy Review. He says parents need to be aware of the health
risks associated with daycare.
"The literature of pediatricians and medical
experts has for years been warning about the fact that daycare centers are
among the worst places in our society for the transmission of infectious
disease," he says, "and that ranges from things like inner-ear
infections, which can lead to other things, to much more serious things."
Robertson also says children in non-maternal care are more likely to be
aggressive, non-compliant, and even violent.
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Behavior, Disease |
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