1 in 3 Canadian mothers do not receive any EI maternity/parental benefits. In 2011, 68% of mothers with children 12 months and under received these benefits. 76.6% had insurable employment and 88% of those got benefits. See the Statistics Canada…
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Mar 17, 2013: UK Daily Mail article featuring Kids First Swedish colleague, Jonas Himmelstrand, Long days at nursery or with childminders 'raising a generation of school tearaways'. Research says that bad behaviour is linked to hours spent without parents. Jonas…
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March 8, 2013 International Women's Day - UK Guardian article by Selma James, founder of Wages for Housework, and Nina Lopez of Argentina, founder of Legal Action for Women and joint co-ordinator of the Global Women's Strike: Hugo Chávez knew…
Mar 2013: Roadkill Radio interviews Kids First President, Helen Ward, on the "Gender Equity Rankings" report by the World Economic Forum (gender equity is not about women's empowerment), HELP's Dr Paul Kershaw, and BC's $10/day daycare push
Feb 28, 2013: Vancouver Co-op radio interviews Kids First President, Helen Ward, on the Early Development Instrument, daycare, all-day Kindergarten and the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) https://kidsfirstcanada.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/helen.mp3
Feb 26, 2013: Stress is Killing Gender Equality in Canada
Feb 2013: Landmark Human Rights Case for FamiliesA court ruled that child care is a real need and not a life style choice and that the employer must make accommodation for this need as would be required for disability or…
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Dr Clyde Hertzman, the Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP) at UBC died very unexpectedly earlier this month. We offer our condolences to his loved ones at the untimely passing of this vibrant, intelligent and witty man. Kids…
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Find below the "Gender Gap Report" Presented at the 2012 World Economic Forum WEF_GenderGap_Report_2012Download
TVO Parents Videos: In The Importance of Attachment, Gordon Neufeld explains his opposition to all-day kindergarten. He says, "the state should not be commissioned to take care of our children" and "to hand the child over to the state: the…
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Nov 2012: Study published in Journal of Pediatrics finds daycare linked to obesity (head author: Marie-Claude Geoffroy) CBC article: "Obesity odds may be higher for children in daycare" Toronto Star: "Daycare and obesity: Parents weigh in on why kids in…
Nov 2012: Report on bullying policy by Institute for Family & Marriage Canada "Family responses to bullying: Why governments won't stop bullying until families step up." This report applies attachment theory and Dr Gordon Neufeld's work to the issue of…
Aug 30, 2012 (web): Nurturing children: Why “early learning” doesn’t help. An article by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada with interviews of Dr Gordon Neufeld and Kids First President, Helen Ward download PDF copy here
July/August 2012: Costco Connections Debate on all-day Kindergarten with Helen Ward of Kids First: Send in your input and do the poll. Here is an uncut version of the Costco article with references/links (PDF)
June 28, 2012. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - letter (PDF): "Kids First Letter to Ontario Minister of Education"
