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Media Release December 12th, 2005

Posted by on in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc.

DAYCARE and "BEER-GATE": ACCOUNTABILITY, HATE and LIESKids First Parent Association of Canada604-291-0088 Sunday on CBC's political panel, Scott Reid, strategist and top adviser for the Liberal Party, repeatedly insisted that parents would "blow" the $1200/year per child 0-5 promised by…

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We Need a Moratorium on Paul Martin’s National Childcare Program

Posted by on in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Misc., Policy with promise

With Sweden's vaunted universal daycare system showing such serious cracks that both its own Education Ministry has criticized it and a growing grass roots movement in that country has formed to oppose it, we have the perfect opportunity to learn…

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Fund the Child

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KIDS FIRST is part of the growing national FUND THE CHILD Coalition asking our governments to fund the child directly by funding families rather than attempting to construct an unwanted, discriminatory, grossly inefficient, and harmful system of state-controlled "spaces" for…

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A Stanford and Berkeley study of over 14,000 children finds pre-school/daycare harms social development.

Posted by on in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural

A Stanford and Berkeley study of over 14,000 children finds pre-school/daycare harms social development. “The UC Berkeley-Stanford study found that all children who attended preschool at least 15 hours a week displayed more negative social behaviors such as trouble cooperating…

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Background to All-Day Schooling: Daycare Lobby Strategizing at Taxpayer Expense

Posted by on in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Power imbalance between parents & state

Child Rearing by the State: The “Integration” Agenda to Merge Daycare and School Background to All-Day Schooling: Daycare Lobby Strategizing at Taxpayer Expense The OECD’s idea of All-Day Kindergarten for ages 3-5 was established in Canada with the secretive strategizing…

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Rising Violence Against Swedish Women Despite Gender Equity Promotion (broken link)

Posted by on in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Sweden, Women & Work

The link below is to CBC radio show "The Current" with a top current affairs interviewer dealing with rising violence against women in Sweden. http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2005/200505/20050527.html (broken link)Scroll down to part 3 to read about the situation in Sweden. You can…

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The Failure of European Family Policy: Does Daycare Raise Birthrates in Sweden? (broken link)

Posted by on in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Power imbalance between parents & state, Sweden

The Failure of European Family Policy (broken link): Does Daycare Raise Birthrates in Sweden? Dr. Allan Carlson, historian of Swedish family policy, demonstrates the falseness of the claim that Sweden has overcome sub-replacement fertility rates: policy that coerces mothers into…

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JULY 2005 UPDATE

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From: KIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADAwww.kidsfirstcanada.org604-291-0088 Contents Membership and Contact List UpdateNew on Our WebsiteReport on National Daycare PlanDaycare Agreements—Provincial Specifics Membership and Contact List Update We are updating our membership and contact lists. Please send your info (name,…

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Does Daycare Lower ‘Child Poverty’ and Get Mums into Jobs? Quebec Experiment Results: No

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Ontario, Quebec, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Data from "ECEC 2004" published by the Childcare Resource and Research Unit at the University of Torontohttp://www.childcarecanada.org/ECEC2004/index.html#tocQUEBEC Regulated daycare expenditure: $1.56 billion."Spaces" are available for only 29.9% of kids age 0-12. (Quebec would have to triple expenses to $4.5 billion…

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