Commentary

Read excerts from Patricia Morgan’s book, Family Policy, Family Changes—Sweden, Italy and Britain Compared:

Posted by on in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Power imbalance between parents & state, Sweden, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Read excerpts from Patricia Morgan’s book, Family Policy, Family Changes—Sweden, Italy and Britain Compared: or try: Book City (toronto) June 2006. CH. 2 EXTRACT ON SWEDEN: "Sweden: Socialist Engineering in Family Policy" (PDF)June 2006. Ch. 5 EXTRACT: "Overview and Conclusions"…

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New Daycare Poll: Ripped Off, Dumbed Down & Shut Up (misled links)

Posted by on in All-day kindergarten/daycare/preschool/ELCC, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc., Parental preference

A new poll on "child care" is out. "Poll Shows Canadians Rejecting Government Child Care Allowance" we are told. Maybe they'll be sending back the cheques. The usual combination of undefined terms, leading questions, omissions and misinformation result in a…

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Major study from University of London, England: What is known about the long-term economic impact of centre-based early childhood interventions?

Posted by on in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Policy with promise

Major study from University of London, England: What is known about the long-term economic impact of centre-based early childhood interventions? “Politicians and policy-makers should stop basing the case for expanding early years provision on old, inaccurate and decontextualized data about…

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Response to Dr. Hillel Goelman’s article “Time to get past child care myths”

Posted by on in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Quality & staff-child ratios, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

[Dr. Goelman, daycare lobbyist, had an article in the Vancouver Sun, Monday April 24, 2006. This response was not published by the Sun.] Hillel Goelman and Clyde Hertzman run H.E.L.P. at UBC and are leading daycare promoters. Recently they attacked…

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Do children become criminals without government-licensed daycare and preschool? (broke links)

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Do children become criminals without government-licensed daycare and preschool? Carolyn Bennett, Toronto MP and candidate for Liberal leadership, said it’s good the government is building more prisons because we’ll need them since they are cancelling the daycare deals. For more…

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Media Release April 24th, 2006: “Parent Group Say Government Must Cut Funding to Daycare Lobby Now”

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PARENT GROUP SAYS GOVERNMENT MUST CUT FUNDING TO DAYCARE LOBBY NOWKids First Parent Association of Canada604-291-0088 Parents' groups are asking the government to commit to quickly terminating public funding for daycare lobby groups.Helen Ward, President of Kids First Parent Association…

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Prime Minister Harper to Ask Parliament to Approve Choice in Child Care Allowance

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From the Prime Minister's Web Site at http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?category=1&id=1111 (broken link)FULL SPEECH AVAILABLE in the PM's AUDIO CENTRE Time for opposition parties to stand up for universal child care April 18, 2006Burnaby, B.C. After meeting with a group of parents and…

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