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Day care is bad for babies - Biddulph
by Paola Totaro, smh.com.au (Sydney
Morning Herald) 18-Mar-06
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In a new book, Raising Babies -
Should under 3s go to Nursery?, (Steven Biddulph) argues that (a)
growing international body of work (the results of national and
international studies of infants in long day care) combined with
neurobiological research clearly suggests that at least during the first two
years of life, brain development unfolds at its optimum with one-to-one
care...
...Significant among the reams of research are the so-called cortisol
studies, which measured the presence of stress hormones in young babies and
consistently found these levels to be higher in children in long day care.
These have been linked with greater aggression and anxiety found in older
children in long day care but are also known to affect the development of a
range of neurotransmitters, whose pathways in the brain are still being
built. These permanent brain changes are now thought by scientists and
psychiatrists to affect the way the child will react to stress, anxiety and
negative feelings in later life.
Category = Behavior,
Development |
Day care is bad for babies - Biddulph
by Paola Totaro, smh.com.au (Sydney
Morning Herald) 18-Mar-06
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"I had started out as a believer
in the ideal of quality nursery care (daycare) and the role it played in allowing
women to broaden their lives … but the more I saw of the reality of day-care centres and nurseries and the more conversations I had with parents and
carers, it became clear to me that the reality never matched the fantasy."
"The best nurseries (daycares) struggle to meet the needs of very young children in a
group setting. The worst were negligent, frightening and bleak: a nightmare
of bewildered loneliness that was heartbreaking to watch."
Category = Politics,
Quality |
Day care is bad for babies - Biddulph
by Paola Totaro, smh.com.au (Sydney
Morning Herald) 18-Mar-06
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"Children at this age - under three -
want one thing only: the individual care of their own special person. Even
the best run nurseries (daycares) cannot offer this." ...Whether motivated by idealism
or corporate greed, (the concept of commercial child care is) aimed to "slot
messy and needy young children into the new economic system, while at the
same time reassuring us that it is good for them, socially and
educationally".
Child care is now so well marketed, he writes, that even parents at home
have begun to feel that they might not be as good for their babies as the
"professionals".
"The critical, rarely mentioned core of nursery care (daycare) is that our children
will be looked after in bulk...
...Like McDonald's fast food, we can enjoy the convenience of drive-through,
ready-made, fast-parenting; through the miracle of mass production."
Category = Behavior,
Development, Economics |
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Day care is bad for babies - Biddulph
by Paola Totaro, smh.com.au (Sydney
Morning Herald) 18-Mar-06 |
"Quality care appropriate to very young children
does not exist. It is a fantasy of the glossy magazines. If your heart has
been uneasy about these things, it is probably right..."
Category = Politics |
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Tories offer fairer daycare
by Charles Moore,
canadianvalues.ca, 10-Apr-06 |
Day-care funding (in Canada) is anticipated to be
one of the new parliamentary session's most contentious issues...
The problem afflicting all sides is a general assumption that more day care
is desirable...
...What isn't being addressed is whether encouraging more day care is good
policy...
In Raising Babies - Should Under Threes Go To Nursery? Biddulph warns
that day care used "too much, too early, too long" damages young
children's'
brain chemistry and negatively affects social and emotional development.
...This is all, of course, politically incorrect in spectacular fashion...
...Biddulph isn't isolated in his critique of day care...
...In his 2003 book Day Care Deception, Brian C. Robertson highlights
continuing attempts to cover up or explain away social-science findings that
document the risks of over-reliance on non-parental group care for preschool
children...
...It begs the question, should governments be actively promoting and
funding day care at all?
Category = Behavior,
Development, Politics |
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