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.
Category: All-day kindergarten/daycare/preschool/ELCC
Calgary Sun Dec 13, 2005: Grits are scary on child care
Calgary Sun Dec 13, 2005: Grits are scary on child care
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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What Stats Can is not telling us: charts of daycare use for ages 6 mos-5 yrs and ages 6-11
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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Commentary December 28, 2004
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
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
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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BC Daycare Vacancies – 2001 Provincial Child Care Survey
Mothers’ Day Proclamation 1870
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…