Kids First Parent Association of Canada

Federal Budget 2007: Good News—Bad News

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 15, 2007June 17, 2020in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care

2007. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - report (PDF): Federal Budget 2007: Good News—Bad News

Daycare Supply and Demand

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 15, 2007June 29, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Enrollment statistics, Misc., Quality & staff-child ratios, Vacancy rates

Is There a Shortage of Daycare Spaces—or a Shortage of Children in the Spaces? Recently the Toronto Star reported huge wait lists for subsidized spaces for low-income families [1]. The idea that there is a "child care crisis" consisting of…

Head Start, Sure Start, Success by 6… Questioning the benefits of pre-school

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 22, 2007June 3, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural

Head Start, Sure Start, Success by 6… Questioning the benefits of pre-school: We need to ask if children would be better off if the huge sums of public money going into these programs, related bureaucracies and research went directly to…

Reality Check: Maybe We Ought to Ask…What Does Daycare Cost?

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon December 20, 2006July 7, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc.

Those who can't count should cut the accountability clamour. I am referring to the fear-mongering that directly funding families rather than daycare will increase beer and popcorn sales.Some info for this fact-starved discussion:The daycare lobby says high quality universal daycare…

2006: Kids First policy recommendations: Inclusion, Equality, Empowerment, Sustainability Policy for Families with Dependent Children

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon November 1, 2006June 5, 2020in Government Submissions, Misc.

2006. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - gov. sub. (PDF): "Canada's Place in a Competitive World"

Oct 2006: Federal Finance Committee Pre-Budgetary Hearings—Official Transcript—Kids First presentation and Q and A (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 1, 2006June 5, 2020in Government Submissions, Misc.

Oct 2006: Federal Finance Committee Pre-Budgetary Hearings—Official Transcript—Kids First presentation and Q and A (broken link)

Protected: KF 2021 May MCFD apprhension of 2 children – REDACTED and CORRECTED BY FAMILY + LEGAL CONCERNS

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 27, 2006September 30, 2022in Child Protection Services, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Parental consent & informed consent, Parents’ and Children’s Rights, Power imbalance between parents & state

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Fall 2006: Submission to Ministerial Advisory Committee on the Government of Canada’s Child Care Spaces Initiative

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 1, 2006June 5, 2020in Government Submissions, Misc.

Fall 2006. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - gov. sub. (PDF): "Child Care Spaces Input - 2006"

The daycare lobby is using the “UN Convention on the Rights of the Child” to argue for more daycare (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon August 1, 2006June 29, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Law, legal cases, formal complaints

The daycare lobby is using the “UN Convention on the Rights of the Child” to argue for more daycare. They avoid mentioning the primacy given the family and the parent-child relationship throughout the document. May 2006. report (PDF): “Canadian early…

Governor Teaches a Preschool Lesson: An article at NRO by Carrie Lukas

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 25, 2006July 7, 2020in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural

Governor Teaches a Preschool Lesson (broken link): An article at NRO by Carrie Lukas about the states rejecting universal preschool as costly, ineffective and interfering in the family sphere

Daycare does not lower “child poverty” or increase mothers’ labour force participation

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 20, 2006July 7, 2020in Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Quebec, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Articles and Research by Kids First—Volume 4 (August 26 , 2005) Daycare does not lower "child poverty" or increase mothers' labour force participation By Helen Ward, President, Kids First Parent Association of Canada © Daycare is promoted as the key…

Minding the Baby Rebecca Abrams’ review of “Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 16, 2006July 7, 2020in Attachment, Mental/Emotional Health

July 16, 2006. "Minding the Baby" - Rebecca Abrams’ review in The Guardian of Sue Gerhardt’s book Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby’s Brain

Perry Preschool Propaganda Project Reality Check: Daycare: The More You Spend, The More You Save!!!???

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 1, 2006July 7, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc.

Spending billions will add $2 TRILLION! Daycare lobby economists, often from the corporate sector, come to this fantastical "costs/benefit" conclusion largely based on the 1962 Perry Preschool Project. That's the study that found every $1 "invested" saves $7. It involved…

Dangerous superbug sweeping across nation, officials say (broken link)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 26, 2006July 7, 2020in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Quality & staff-child ratios

Dangerous superbug sweeping across nation, officials say (broken link): An article at globeandmail.com by Helen Branswell

What is Feminism?

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 26, 2006July 7, 2020in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Pop-Culture Shocker: TV Cartoon Tackles Mums' Work Choices By Chella Turnbull. Received by e-mail June 29, 2006 I watched a very popular cartoon the other evening—it's called "The Family Guy"—quite bizarre and popular with guys especially. The male character got…