Commentary

Recent findings on negative outcomes for children and parenting in the Quebec system

Posted by on in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Quebec

"Universal Childcare, Maternal Labor Supply and Family Well-Being" by Michael Baker (University of Toronto), Jonathan Gruber (MIT) and Kevin Milligan (University of British Columbia).From the study:"We uncover striking evidence that children are worse off in a variety of behavioural and…

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What Stats Can is not telling us: charts of daycare use for ages 6 mos-5 yrs and ages 6-11

Posted by on in All-day kindergarten/daycare/preschool/ELCC, Enrollment statistics, Misc.

Percentage of all Canadian Children Age 6 to 11 Years in Daycare Centres 1994-1995* Children Age 6 Months to 5 Years in Non- Parental Child Care of All Types and in Daycare Centres 2002-2003 A - data from Statistics Canada…

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Swedish family policy has not led to equality for women according to the UK Guardian

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

Swedish family policy has not led to equality for women according to the UK Guardian: Sep 22, 2004. UK Guardian - article (web): “For decades we’ve been told Sweden is a great place to be a working parent. But we’ve…

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Unpaid Family Care Work worth $59 Billion

Posted by on in Misc., Women & Work, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Unpaid Family Care Work worth $59 Billion: Statistics Canada's 2003 report, "Unpaid informal caregiving," puts the value of Canada's unpaid family child care work at $59 billion. The child-care component of this figure includes only "primary-activity child care [which] represents…

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Other Pro-Parent Policies (broken link)

Posted by on in Government Submissions, Misc.

Liberal policies: 1999: "Final Report of the Sub-Committee on Tax Equity for Families with Dependent Children" (broken link)The Liberal government's abandoned policy (broken link) stressed equality and dramatically improving financial support for parental child care-see especially the PRINCIPLES emphasizing respect…

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Taxing Canadian Families: What’s Fair, What’s Not – With KF Commentary

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

July 2000. Vincent and Woolley. IRPP - research paper (PDF): "Taxing Canadian Families: What's Fair, What's Not" This paper thankfully calls for more support for families with dependent children or other dependents, and less discriminatory/more fair for all. However the…

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