Dec 2011, Montreal Gazette article – Corruption and unfairness in Quebec’s daycare system (broken link). NOTE: the article’s claim that daycare demand is higher than supply is very questionable. Parents in polls say they prefer parental care. Demand is artificially…
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World Bank’s Handy Dandy Early Child Development Cost-Benefit Calculator
World Bank’s Handy Dandy Early Child Development Cost-Benefit Calculator (broken link). Use it to “prove” the more you spend, the more you save: $1 produces $2-$17 in savings.
Association for Psychological Science, “How Devoted Moms Buffer Kids In Poverty“.
This peer-reviewed study indicates that maternal nurturing and not only socio-economic status is associated with better health outcomes. The study was led by UBC psychologist Dr Gregory Miller. Miller works in exactly the field UBC’s HELP claims expertise in, yet…
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HELP propagandist, sociologist Dr Paul Kershaw, has a new 24-part editorial series in the Vancouver Sun
September 19, 2011 HELP propagandist, sociologist Dr Paul Kershaw, has a new 24-part editorial series titled "Think Like a Beaver" in the Vancouver Sun. He is pushing mass tax-funded institutional child care with misleading claims and neo-lib/con ideology. He says…
Sept 14 2011: Cycle of ‘compulsive consumerism’ leaves British family life in crisis, Unicef study finds
September, 14 2011. The Telegraph - article (web): Cycle of ‘compulsive consumerism’ leaves British family life in crisis, Unicef study finds
Every Mother Works! Video Exposé by Kids First Australia
September 8, 2011. Kids First Parent Association of Australia - video: Gillard punishes mothers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TprGwsaj5mA e
All-Day Kindergarten: Nfld. & Labrador
Newfoundland considering all-day Kindergarten: World Bank institutional child care lobbyist Clyde Hertzman of HELP visited Newfoundland in Feb 2011. The province is following HELP’s established pattern (BC, Ont) of highly orchestrated “consultations” and a highly selective “research” overview. CBC reporters…
Violent Youth Crime and overall violent crime up dramatically according to Statistics Canada data
Violent Youth Crime and overall violent crime up dramatically according to Statistics Canada data (broken link)
Lawyers recognize the dollar value of unpaid work
Lawyers recognize the dollar value of unpaid work - house work and child care - and have calculated it carefully based on Statistics Canada data: BC - $15.46/hr., Alberta - $15.35/hr, Ontario - $16.22/hr, NWT - $27.46/hrJuly/Aug 2011 - Brown's…
Kids First Commentary: Fat Stats, Fuzzy Numbers, False Conclusions — Nfld. & Labrador
Kids First Commentary September 2011. Helen Ward. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - commentary (PDF): Fat Stats, Fuzzy Numbers, False Conclusions: A Closer Look at CUPE’s Newfoundland Poll On Daycare/All-Day Kindergarten
Business Profit Agenda Undermining Child-Rearing: August 21, 2011
August 21, 2011. The New York Times -article (web): "The Kids Are Not All Right" by UBC law professor, Joel Bakan, author of “The Corporation” and the new “Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children”
Aug 20, 2011 interview with Helen Ward on riots on the Roy Green show on Corus radio.
Aug 20, 2011 interview with Helen Ward on riots on the Roy Green show (broken link) on Corus radio. Go to 8/20, segment “Another teen set to…”
Vancouver Sun Aug 15, 2011: Parents bear responsibility for the recreational rioter
Aug 15, 2011. Vancouver Sun - article (web): Parents bear responsibility for the recreational rioter (broken link)
Maternal separation produces lasting changes in cortisol and behaviour in rhesus monkeys
August 15, 2011: Article in PNAS (scholarly journal) - "Maternal separation produces lasting changes in cortisol and behaviour in rhesus monkeys"
Aug 6, 2011: David Cameron, UK PM responds to riots: “a lack of proper parenting“
August 6, 2011. David Cameron. The Christian Institute - video (web): David Cameron, UK PM responds to riots: “a lack of proper parenting“