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2009-2010,
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Quote/Comment |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009
(Forward by Dr. Elliott Barker) |
This small book
should be dropped like leaflets all over the country to get past the
ubiquitous network of the now entrenched daycare propagandists, to reach the
parents who have never heard the whole story.”
Category = Political |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009
(Forward by Steve Biddulph) |
...we have realized that in our basic
assumptions of Western industrial life, we were terribly wrong about
something very important. We thought that minding babies was a casual,
inconsequential thing that could be left to underpaid teenagers, or done in
bulk with one person to five babies or ten toddlers, without any problem.
Category =
Development |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.5 |
Ignoring research evidence about the
risks and possible ill-effects that are involved, some childcare advocates
still talk as if infants—even from a few weeks of age—can be safely reared
in institutional daycare centers. A powerful and costly childcare ‘industry’
has developed, with vested interests in early childcare and early learning,
and it often has large public subsidies.
Category =
Development, Political |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.10 |
...there is no
successful long-term precedent for
raising infants in ‘daycare’ or ‘childcare’ institutions for most of their
waking hours, without being cared for by anyone who will have an enduring
relationship with them.
Category =
History |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.20 |
In some Western societies, for the sake
of ‘the economy,’ women are urged or pressured into taking paid work outside
the home in ways that prevent them from breastfeeding and mothering their
own infants. Economists seem to ignore the value of all the benefits that
flow from the breastfeeding and healthy mothering of infants. They continue
to make the costly error of regarding such mothering as of no economic
value to the community.
Category =
Economics |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.21 |
...as Minister of Health in Norway, and
then as Prime Minister for a total of ten years, she (Dr Gro H. Brundtland)
introduced measures that enabled mothers to raise breastfeeding levels
toward world best practice. When, as an alternative to childcare, mothers
were offered real choice, with the option of long maternity leave and
appropriate supports, most of them preferred to continue at home,
breastfeeding their babies for much of the first year rather than placing
them in childcare and returning to paid work.
Category =
Economics, Politics |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.25 |
...many childcare advocates argued that
these findings* had no relevance to the briefer
but repeated separations of institutional long-day childcare—especially if
it was of ‘high quality.’ Realistic criteria for high quality in childcare
were seldom specified, and much research has shown that claim to be untrue.
Category = Behavior, Quality
*(Attachment
research by Bowlby) |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.25 |
In 1994, Ingrid Harsman reported her
observations of two matched groups of babies who, during their early months,
were all cared for at home by their mothers and breastfed. She then
described their progress as one group went into high quality Swedish
daycare, while the other group of babies remained with their mothers. The
two groups were matched and controlled, and the effects on attachment,
relationships and behavior in both groups were recorded...
...the results showed grounds for serious concern about the future of some
of the childcare babies. Disturbing reactions were seen following admission
to daycare...
Overall, their developmental scores fell behind those of the infants who
remained at home.
Category = Behavior, Development, Quality |
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