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The Churches and Day Care by Eileen W. Linder,
Christian Century, 25-Apr-84 |
...untold conflicts over shared space and equipment arise each year between
child-care (daycare) centers and host churches.
...Not uncommon is the feeling expressed by a parishioner in an aging
congregation:
"It used to be our building; now it seems to be theirs (the daycare's).
My grandparents helped raise this structure as a church."
Category = Politics, Religion |
The Child-Care Dilemma
Claudia Wallis, Time
22-Jun-87 |
Fretting about the effects of day care on children has become a national
preoccupation. What troubles lie ahead for a generation reared by strangers?
What kind of adults will they become? "It is scaring everybody that a whole
generation of children is being raised in a way that has never happened
before," says Edward Zigler, professor of psychology at Yale and an
authority on child care. At least one major survey of current research, by
Penn State's Belsky, suggests that extensive day care in the first year of
life raises the risk of emotional problems, a conclusion that has mortified
already guilty working parents.
With high-quality supervision (being expensive), many families are placing
their children in the hands of untrained, overworked personnel. "In some
places, that means one woman taking care of nine babies," says Zigler.
"Nobody doing that can give them the stimulation they need. We encounter
some real horror stories out there, with babies being tied into cribs." |
The Child-Care Dilemma
Claudia Wallis, Time
22-Jun-87 |
(In the United States, maternity leaves) are generally brief and unpaid.
This forces many women to return to work sooner than they would like and
creates a huge demand for infant care, the most expensive and difficult
child-care service to supply. The premature separation takes a personal toll
as well, observes Harvard Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, heir apparent to
Benjamin Spock as the country's pre-eminent guru on child rearing. "Many
parents return to the workplace grieving." |
The Child-Care Dilemma
Claudia Wallis, Time
22-Jun-87 |
To some people day-care centers, particularly government-sponsored ones,
threaten family values; they seem a step on the slippery slope toward an
Orwellian socialist nightmare. |
The Child-Care Dilemma
Claudia Wallis, Time
22-Jun-87 |
(Said Gilda Ongkeko, the owner of a preschool-supply company,) "I've been to
over 1,000 child-care centers," she says, "and I'd say that 90% of them
should be shut down. It's pathetic." |
Babes in Day Care by Ellen Ruppel Shell, The
Atlantic Monthly, August 1988; Volume 262, No. 2; pages 73-74 |
Dr. Eleanor Galenson, a prominent New York City child psychiatrist, told me
that she has long considered full-time child care to be bad for
infants and that Belsky's* report simply
confirmed what she saw in her practice every day -- children whose
psyches are seriously damaged in part because of a dearth of
maternal attention. "Putting infants into full-time day care
is a dangerous practice," she says.
"Psychiatrists have been afraid to come out and tell the public this, but
many of us certainly know it to be true." Another extremely influential
authority on child care told me privately that despite public pronouncements
to the contrary, he feels "in my guts" that infants
are better off at home with their mothers
*Dr. Jay Belsky -- developmental
psychologist who is well-known for his research on the effects of daycare on
babies and young children.
Category = Danger, Quality |
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