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"CONCERNS ABOUT CHILD CARE"
by Bill Muehlenberg, link-zone.net,
Feb-05 ` |
In addition, a number of studies from
here and overseas have shown that there is a much higher risk of physical
health problems associated with day care. Colds, diarrhoea, coughs,
hepatitis A, respiratory complaints, mumps, measles, influenza,
cytomegalovirus, meningitis are some of the medical problems which abound in
day care centres. One Australian study for example found that "children
prone to respiratory illness were more likely to be users of child care
centres or creches than the children who were not prone". Another study of
23 long-day-care centres in Canberra found that on average children there
suffered six more respiratory infections a year compared with children not
in care. Moreover, some of these infections can be passed on to the parents.
A recent study of 450 children at 20 Darwin daycare centres found that
workers there have poor standards of basic hygiene. The children at the
centres pick up on average 15 infections a year.
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"CONCERNS ABOUT CHILD CARE"
by Bill Muehlenberg, link-zone.net,
Feb-05 |
For example, a Norwegian study found
that toddlers who attend day care or nursery school are twice as likely to
develop asthma.
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"CONCERNS ABOUT CHILD CARE"
by Bill Muehlenberg, link-zone.net,
Feb-05 |
One explanation that physicians offer
for the higher rates of disease amongst children in day care is the issue of
breastfeeding. Mothers who put quite young children into day care for long
periods are obviously unable to breastfeed their children.
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Disease |
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"CONCERNS ABOUT CHILD CARE"
by Bill Muehlenberg, link-zone.net,
Feb-05 |
"Why not put more tax dollars into day care, to
improve quality and service, in order to replicate that home environment?"
There are several problems with this. First, the better a daycare centre is,
the more it costs. Thus low income families tend to lose out. And as
Patricia Morgan explains, "Affordable care is low-quality care. Universally
available high-quality care is achievable nowhere on earth".
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Economics, Quality |
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"CONCERNS ABOUT CHILD CARE"
by Bill Muehlenberg, link-zone.net,
Feb-05 |
Second, daycare work is a thankless and underpaid
job. To enable daycarers to better perform their tasks, they need all the
comforts other workers get; rostered time off, lunch and tea breaks, shift
work, vacation time. But this is the Catch 22 situation: the better we make
working conditions for the carers, the more we disadvantage the infant! That
is, the more flexi-time we give the carer, the less continuous, long-term
attention the baby gets from one carer.
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Economics, Quality
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"CONCERNS ABOUT CHILD CARE"
by Bill Muehlenberg, link-zone.net,
Feb-05 |
A 1996 survey of Macquarie University early child
care students with experience in day care found that not one student said
they would put their baby in a child care centre.
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Quality |
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"CONCERNS ABOUT CHILD CARE"
by Bill Muehlenberg, link-zone.net,
Feb-05 |
This raises the question of equity. Why should
mothers who choose to stay at home with their young children receive no or
little financial support, while mothers who put their children into formal
daycare and return to the paid work force get various benefits, subsidies
and financial assistance for doing so? Why are stay-at-home mums in effect
penalised (e.g., via the taxation system), while non-stay-at-home mums are
rewarded? Why should dual income families receive government subsidies for
day care when single income families receive no or very little by way of
subsidies? Why this discrimination? Governments should not be in the
business of showing partiality to one kind of mother over another. It should
treat all mums fairly. This is not a call for special favours or rights for
stay at home mums, simply equity and fairness.
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