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…
Category: Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural
Swedish legal case involving a family wishing to care for their own child
Swedish legal case involving a family wishing to care for their own child:September 19, 2005. Carolina Kaya - appeal document (PDF): "Re: Appeal for reversal of a municipal decision"
Children in daycare centres have higher levels of stress measured by testing cortisol levels—BBC News article.
Children in daycare centres have higher levels of stress measured by testing cortisol levels: September 19 2005. BBC - News article (web): "Childcare 'stress for toddlers'"
The Failure of European Family Policy: Does Daycare Raise Birthrates in Sweden? (broken link)
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…
Swedish Government Report Critiques Daycare Conditions: Articles and Research by Kids First—Volume 1
(July 15, 2005) Swedish Government Report Critiques Daycare Conditions By Helen Ward, President, Kids First Parent Association of Canada © Canadian daycare advocates hold Swedish daycare to be a model for Canada. The pro-corporate Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation…
Kids First Guest Blog (July 11, 2005)
Motherlove, crime and addiction: lessons learned from lab rats By Chella Turnbull © Crime in urban North America has taken on a new character lately. The elderly, the helpless, and charities are now the new targets. People in Vancouver were…
A Critical Review of Daycare for Under 3s
A Critical Review of Daycare for Under 3s (broken link)
More on Dumping Kids in Day Care: A blog by Dr. Rod Moser, PA, PhD
More on Dumping Kids in Day Care (broken link) : A blog by Dr. Rod Moser, PA, PhD
The Politicized Science of Day Care: A Personal and Professional Odyssey
The Politicized Science of Day Care: A Personal and Professional Odyssey: A paper (download PDF here) by Dr Jay Belsky, a leading researcher with the US NICHD who is now at the Birkbeck University of London.
Research on Daycare and Low Birthrates
The linked article is quite in depth regarding the failure of daycare-ist policy to increase birthrates in Europe, especially in Sweden-and exposes the lie that daycare has raised birthrates. The OECD and the European Commission and many national governments are…
Recent findings on negative outcomes for children and parenting in the Quebec system
"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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