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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996,
Chapter 11, Summary, P 177 |
The economies of scale which have been part of
the economic justification for day care disappear as staff/child
ratios are improved towards recommended levels, and day care ceases to be
cost-effective, because the "caregiver/child ratio is the key
determinant of cost".
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Economics |
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996, P177 |
Parents have a right to be informed of
all relevant risks (of daycare), and if necessary to be involved in
considering the risk-benefit balance for their own infants.
Category = Politics |
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996, P179 |
Most Swedes believe home care is better than
the best child care
Sweden, reported to have the world's highest quality child care...have now
largely phased it out for infants in the first year...
..more than 80% of Swedes regard it as ideal to care for children at home
until they reach the age of three. Professional opinion supports this
view.
...It is ill advised for governments to follow a program of early infant
child care (daycare) which Sweden has tried, but which is believed by
most Swedes to be inferior to home care...
Category = Quality |
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996,
Appendix I, Changing Modes of Chldrearing: The Empathic or Trusting,
Cooperative Approach and Distrustful, Authoritarian Childrearing,
P186 |
In
1963 Betty Friedan, in "The Feminine Mystique, described women as being
isolated in the "comfortable concentration camp" of their suburban homes.
I wonder how she would react to a suggestion that a generation later
infants are isolated from their families in the uncomfortable concentration
camps of their child care centres?
Category = Quality
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