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Who's Minding the Kids?
Interrogatory,
Q & A by Kathryn Jean Lopez, interview of Brian
Robertson, author of "The Day Care Deception:
What the Child Care Establishment isn't telling us", National Review Online,
nationalreview.com
01-Oct-03 |
The most comprehensive survey yet done on child
care — by the nonpartisan group Public Agenda — found that parents prefer
one parent to stay at home over a "quality" day-care center as the best
arrangement for children under five by a margin of 12 to 1; 71 percent
agreed with the statement that "parents should only rely on a day care
center when they have no other option"; and 8 out of 10 young mothers with
preschool children professed the desire to stay home with them rather than
continue to work.
...Interestingly, the opinions of the "child
advocates" who tend to control the debate on day care are almost exactly the
reverse on these issues.
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Politics |
Who's Minding the Kids?
Interrogatory,
Q & A by Kathryn Jean Lopez nationalreview.com
01-Oct-03 |
And regarding the social-science
findings, in my view, the evidence is conclusive and becomes more conclusive
every year: Day care is both a serious risk to
children's normal development and to their health. The lack of
dissemination of this evidence is really scandalous.
Category =
Development, Disease, Politics |
Who's Minding the Kids?
Interrogatory,
Q & A by Kathryn Jean Lopez nationalreview.com
01-Oct-03 |
...public policy in the United States is skewed
in favor of subsidizing the day-care choice for parents through tax benefits
and other means. Not only do you have the child-care tax credit available
only to parents who use accredited, commercial day care at the expense of
at-home parents...but you have corporations being given substantial tax
breaks for providing day care or day-care referral to employees. In addition
to that, tax laws encourage corporations to provide up to $5,000
in income tax free to employees, as long as they spend it on commercial day
care for their children.
...this is positively perverse social policy.
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Politics |
Who's Minding the Kids?
Interrogatory,
Q & A by Kathryn Jean Lopez nationalreview.com
01-Oct-03 |
The tough thing about being an advocate for
parents is that most of them are too busy
parenting to get that involved in public
policy or social issues. Which means they are at a disadvantage compared to
the (daycare lobbyists for the) child-care establishment, a highly organized and well-funded
interest group that has lots of influence in Washington.
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Politics |
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