Children’s Well-Being

Every Mother is a Working Mother in Venezuela: Unpaid Home-Workers of Venezuela Fight Bureaucrats to Assure President Hugo Chavez’s Revolutionary Promise of Remuneration

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 4, 2006July 7, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

(espanol abajo)STATEMENT FROM WOMEN HOUSEWIVE WORKERS IN THE HOME TO OUR PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ FRIAS—4 February 2006We see the need to issue this statement given the imminent emergency of having to spend another year without a budget or begging here…

Reality Check on Quebec Daycare: Research Finds Low Quality, High Costs, Negative Outcomes, Worse Family Finances

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 2, 2006July 7, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Misc., Quality & staff-child ratios, Quebec

Feb 2, 2006Helen Ward, PresidentKid First Parent Association of Canada604-291-0088 Who cares about the children and families in Quebec? Outright lies go routinely unchallenged about the Quebec daycare system. "Don't worry—be happy!" is the mindless new Canadian way. We are…

Royal Bank of Canada Vice President Charlie Coffey speaks of the “business imperative” in “Early Child Development,”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 1, 2006July 7, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Royal Bank of Canada Vice President Charlie Coffey speaks of the “business imperative” in “Early Child Development,” which means daycare. Speech textVideo of speech

Parents vs State Intervention in Child-Rearing: Clarifying our Roles

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 26, 2006June 29, 2020in Breastfeeding, Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc., Policy with promise, Power imbalance between parents & state, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

January 4, 2006 Last month, Scott Reid, chief of communications for the Liberal Party, repeatedly insisted that parents would "blow" the $1200/year per child 0-5 promised by the Conservative Party on beer, popcorn and videos. Another aide supported him and…

Corporate Right World Bankers Lobbying for Daycare—Speech

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 10, 2006July 7, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc., UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI

Royal Bank of Canada Vice President Charlie Coffey speaks of the "business imperative" in "Early Child Development," which means daycare.Speech text at: http://www.rbc.com/newsroom/20050928coffey.htmlVideo of speech at: http://www1.worldbank.org/hdnetwork/External/cy/ccoffey.htm We agree that care and learning and development are good for children, but…

Daycare, Low Income and the Left

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 1, 2006July 7, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Misc.

Jan. 20, 2006by Helen WardKids First Parent Association of Canada604-291-0088 Daycare has become a top election issue for all parties. The possibility that the daycare agreements will be terminated brings on the accusation that this will hurt low-income families, like…

Review of Ann Crittenden’s book, If You’ve Raised Kids You Can Manage Anything

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 24, 2005June 29, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

October 24, 2005. Review at Stratletter of Ann Crittenden’s book, If You’ve Raised Kids You Can Manage Anything

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

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 25, 2005July 7, 2020in 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…

Kids First Guest Blog (July 11, 2005)

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 11, 2005July 7, 2020in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny

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…

Premier advances N.B. position on federal gas tax return, child-care funding

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon May 30, 2005June 29, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Policy with promise

Office of the Premier—May 30, 2005SAINT JOHN (CNB)—Premier Bernard Lord promoted the province's position on federal child-care funding and the gas tax return to New Brunswick during his speech to the Kennebecasis Valley Chamber of Commerce tonight. Lord said the…

Financial Post: March 7th, 2005

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 7, 2005July 7, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc.

EPLY TO BUZZ HARGROVE ON CHILD CARE POLICY [Mr. Hargrove, President of the Canadian AutoWorkers Union, had an article in the Financial Post Feb 28, 2005 calling for more daycare funding. This response was published March 7. Sections here in…

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…

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

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 14, 2000July 14, 2020in 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…