Commentary

Parents vs State Intervention in Child-Rearing: Clarifying our Roles

Posted by on in Breastfeeding, Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc., Policy with promise, Power imbalance between parents & state, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

January 4, 2006 Last month, Scott Reid, chief of communications for the Liberal Party, repeatedly insisted that parents would "blow" the $1200/year per child 0-5 promised by the Conservative Party on beer, popcorn and videos. Another aide supported him and…

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Daycare Dis-information Buster: Creating False Impressions with “Child Care” Words and Numbers

Posted by on in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc.

Helen WardKids First Parent Association of Canada The daycare lobby has created the impression that most children are in daycare most of the time. A game with the meaning of "child care" is why many believe that 50 % or…

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Announcement of our Formal Complaint to the United Nations

Posted by on in Government Submissions, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc., Policy with promise

The Fund the Child Coalition is currently drafting a complaint to the United Nations regarding Canada's potential violation of the "Convention on the Rights of the Child". The Swedish parent's group, "A Child's Right to their Parent's Time" has already…

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Corporate Right World Bankers Lobbying for Daycare—Speech

Posted by on in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc., UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Royal Bank of Canada Vice President Charlie Coffey speaks of the "business imperative" in "Early Child Development," which means daycare.Speech text at: http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/20050928coffey.htmlVideo of speech at: http://www1.worldbank.org/hdnetwork/External/cy/ccoffey.htm We agree that care and learning and development are good for children, but…

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Letter to the Editor Re: Dis-information in Article by Top Daycare Lobbyist, Martha Friendly

Posted by on in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc.

Helen Ward, National PresidentKids First Parent Association of Canada4819 Albert St.Burnaby, BC604-291-0088www.kidsfirstcanada.orginfo@kidsfirstcanada.org Dear Editor: Martha Friendly, head of the fully SDC-funded Childcare Resource and Research Unit, spins disinformation in her article. She does not mention that the research consistently shows…

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Daycare, Low Income and the Left

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc.

Jan. 20, 2006by Helen WardKids First Parent Association of Canada604-291-0088 Daycare has become a top election issue for all parties. The possibility that the daycare agreements will be terminated brings on the accusation that this will hurt low-income families, like…

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Mum professor seeking input from “at-home” parents for book

Posted by on in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Stay-at-Home-Parent Your insight and experiences are needed to help others!I am a mother of two boys and college professor who recently made the decision to put her career on hold to be a stay-at-home parent. The decision was surprisingly hard…

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Top “Integration” Promoters Admit Problems and Lack of Evidence for their Policy:

Posted by on in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Sweden

Top “Integration” Promoters Admit Problems and Lack of Evidence for their Policy: 2006 Paper by OECD child policy head J. Bennett, “Toward a new pedagogical meeting place? Bringing early childhood into the education system (broken link).” Integration is pushed despite…

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Daycare Dis-information Buster: What it really means when they say “The reality is that 70% of mothers are working”

Posted by on in Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Dec 20, 2005. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - res & com (PDF): "Daycare Dis-information Buster: What it really means when they say “The reality is that 70% of mothers are working”