Category: Children’s Well-Being

Do Social Workers Have Too Much Power?

Posted by on in Child Protection Services, Misc., Physical activity, sleep, sedentary behaviour & screen time, Power imbalance between parents & state

September 30, 2015: Do Social Workers have too much power? The Nation explores the question in "Has Child Protective Services Gone Too Far? A debate sparked by the free-range parenting movement has drawn attention to the threats and intrusions poor,…

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Funding for parental child care vs daycare in Sweden, Finland, Norway

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Parental preference, Sweden

Finland has the largest cash benefit for parental care and lowest use of daycare, and also has the best outcomes in the world for high school academic results on OECD PISA tests. Read about the different Nordic funding schemes in…

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Adolescent Health – protective and risk factors: Findings from the US Add Health Study

Posted by on in Attachment, Mental/Emotional Health, Misc.

The quotes below come from the Monograph, "Reducing the Risk: Connections That Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth"Download "The home environment makes a difference in the health of American youth. When teens feel connected to their families and…

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Iowa student refuses to be weighed by school

Posted by on in Misc., Obesity, Power imbalance between parents & state, Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC

Nov 2014, Iowa student refuses to be weighed by school In BC we have the "Daily Physical Activity" DPA reporting requirement which has schools requiring students to report and electronically record at least 30 minutes of physical activity per day.…

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Full Equality For Women (broken link)

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

FULL EQUALITY FOR WOMEN: Funding for family care work embraced by economists and lawyers "every mother is a working mother" Sept 2014 "Setting a wage for homemaking" - Mercatornet (broken link)September 2014 "Taking Unpaid Housework for Granted Is Wrong" -…

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Research on Children in Orphanages Shows Vital Role of Parental Attachment and Other Impacts of Neglect

Posted by on in Attachment, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural

February 2014 . Jon Hamilton. science news article and video - US National Public Radio: "Orphans' Lonely Beginnings Reveal How Parents Shape A Child's Brain" Kids First reference copy here (PDF) "parenting... is a bit like oxygen. It's easy to take…

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Calgary Herald article

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Parental preference, Policy with promise

Via IMFC February 20, 2014. IMFC - update (web): Calgary Herald: Andrea Mrozek quoted in editorial favouring income splitting See original article here: Calgary Herald article (broken link) See Also 1999 Federal Sub-Committee report (download PDF here) on income splitting

Birth-Mothers are Different Than Other Parents (broken link)

Posted by on in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Pregnancy

Supreme Court of Canada rules birth-mothers are different than other parents. West Coast LEAF lawyer publicly congratulates and supports Kids First goal of challenging definitions of "child care" and "work" that discriminate against the work of parental child care. Hear…

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