All-day kindergarten/daycare/preschool/ELCC

The Politicized Science of Day Care: A Personal and Professional Odyssey

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 5, 2005July 7, 2020in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Quality & staff-child ratios

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.

Calgary Sun Dec 13, 2005: Grits are scary on child care

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 25, 2005July 7, 2020in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby

Calgary Sun Dec 13, 2005: Grits are scary on child care

Research on Daycare and Low Birthrates

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 20, 2005July 7, 2020in Birth, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Misc.

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

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 15, 2005July 7, 2020in 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…

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

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 10, 2005July 7, 2020in 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…

Commentary December 28, 2004

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon December 29, 2004June 29, 2020in Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc.

This is a transcript of a CBC Commentary by Bev Smith, former President of Kids First Parent Association of Canada. Please contact us with your input, or to receive or renew a membership with Kids First.Helen Ward, PresidentKids First Parent…

Swedish Complaint to The United Nations

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon November 26, 2004June 29, 2020in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Power imbalance between parents & state, Sweden

November 28, 2004. Barnens Rätt Till Föräldrarnas - "Report of violation of your Convention on the Rights of the Child" (PDF)

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

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 22, 2004June 29, 2020in 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…

BC Daycare Vacancies – 2001 Provincial Child Care Survey

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 1, 2001December 4, 2020in Misc., Vacancy rates

Mothers’ Day Proclamation 1870

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 12, 1870July 7, 2020in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Policy with promise

No Brekky in Bed Mothers' Day social activist roots: It started in the US in 1858 when Anna Jarvis organized Mothers' Work Days to improve sanitation in the Appalachians.Julia Ward Howe (who also wrote lyrics for "The Battle Hymn of…