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Quotes from News articles about daycare:
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Give Oklahoma Moms What They Want
by Brandon Dutcher, The
Oklahoma Constitution, ©2001 |
Family historian John Sommerville has
rightly suggested we need a modern-day Charles Dickens to give us a
"child's-eye view" of communal child rearing. Picture a (daycare) room with
crying babies in cribs, their arms outstretched, desperate to be picked up
and held. Picture downcast toddlers with vacant looks on their faces,
feeling abandoned and lonely and stressed. Picture a little girl who would
love to sit on the floor and play with her mother, but instead is surrounded
for 10 hours a day, five days a week, by babbling and screaming children,
one of whom has a penchant for biting her on the shoulder. And we want to
subject more children to this?
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Quality, Politics |
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Give Oklahoma Moms What They Want
by Brandon Dutcher, The
Oklahoma Constitution, ©2001 |
Sure, there may be some situations
(single motherhood, for example) where surrogate parenting (daycare) becomes
necessary. But as a matter of public policy, we should not give it
preferential treatment. Right now, the federal and Oklahoma tax codes
discriminate against at-home parents: Tax credits help two-income families
pay for day care, but aren't available to moms or dads who take care of
their own kids at home.
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Politics |
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Possible Side-effects of Daycare
by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 19-Apr-01 |
(National Institutes of Health)
Researchers conducting the largest long-term study of child care in the
United States said today that they had found that children who spend most of
their time in child care are three times as likely to exhibit behavioral
problems in kindergarten as those who are cared for primarily by their
mothers.
...the findings held true regardless of the type or quality of care, the sex
of the child, the family's socioeconomic status or whether mothers
themselves provided sensitive care.
"As time (in day-care) goes up, so do behavior problems," said Dr. Jay Belsky, one of the
study's principal investigators.
Dr. Belsky said children who spent more than 30 hours a week in child care
"are more demanding, more noncompliant, and they are more aggressive." He
added, "They scored higher on things like gets in lots of fights, cruelty,
bullying, meanness, as well as talking too much, demands must be met
immediately."
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PUBLIC LIVES; Another Academic Salvo
in the Nation's 'Mommy Wars',
by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 21-Apr-01 |
''A slow, steady trickle of evidence,''
Dr. Belsky recalls, had built up to persuade him that infants who spent long
hours in child care were at risk of behavioral problems later on. He
published his views in a little-known newsletter, under the headline
''Infant Day Care: A Cause for Concern?''
It was as if he had advocated infanticide.
''I was a pariah,'' Dr. Belsky says, ''a phantom.''
Colleagues shunned him at scientific meetings. A textbook he co-wrote
wouldn't sell; the publisher removed his name from the second edition.
Critics called him a misogynist, and worse.
Category = Politics |
A Mother's Love
Day care is essential to the feminist agenda. But how is it on kids?
by Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal, 23-April-01 |
(Some) argue that this form of child
care is just as "valid" as care given by a mother. They do this, most often,
not by asserting that day care has just as many positive features as home
care by the mother, but by denying--stubbornly, dogmatically, antinaturally--that
there is anything irreplaceable in a mother's full-time care. In other
words, they say that those toddlers who go to day care are not missing
anything. There is no lacuna, no void.
(Others) know instinctively that this cannot be right. To spare the mom is,
surely, to spoil the child. So it came as no surprise when I read, last
week, of the results of a long-term study of child care in the U.S., which
found that children who are reared in child care are three times as likely
to show behavioral problems in kindergarten as those cared for primarily by
their mothers. These problems include aggression, disobedience, and
"cruelty," as well as a tendency to expect that demands must be met
immediately. The problem is particularly evident in children who spend more
than 30 hours a week in day care...As
the findings of the study--financed by the National Institute on Child
Health and Human Development--filter into the full consciousness of the news
media, we will almost certainly see an outbreak of scoffing and debunking by
the child-care-is-great brigade. For them, this study is deeply
inconvenient...
Let's be honest and accept that day care is
the less good, or inferior, child-care option.
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Behavior, Politics |
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Thoughts on daycare and homecare,
by John Rosemond, Lexington Herald-Leader,
May-01 |
Common sense says mom-care is generally better
than employee-care…(research) findings line up fairly well with common
sense.
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Quality |
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Quotes from News
articles about daycare: 2001,
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Last updated:
12/03/2011
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