Mustard’s Contempt for Parents: “17% of parents are godawful” and only one third of us are “competent” says World Bank backed daycare lobbyist, Dr. Fraser Mustard in a Toronto Star article: Mar 26, 2007. Toronto Star - excerpts (PDF): "Canada…
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The Rise in the Number of Children and Adolescents Who Exhibit Problematic Behaviors: Multiple Causes A new report by the Vanier Institute for the Family speaks of the context in which children have developed dramatically increased problematic, anti-social behaviour.It very…
New Vanier Institute Report: 2007. The Rise in the Number of Children and Adolescents Who Exhibit Problematic Behaviors: Multiple Causes (broken link) Kids First summaryPress Release (broken link)Globe and Mail article and readers’ comments (broken link)Recent related reports: UNICEF report…
2007. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - report (PDF): Federal Budget 2007: Good News—Bad News
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: 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…
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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…
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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)
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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. 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 (broken link): An article at NRO by Carrie Lukas about the states rejecting universal preschool as costly, ineffective and interfering in the family sphere
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…
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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
