Category: Children’s Well-Being

New Study from the UK Recommends $100 per Month for Parental Child Care (broken link)

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New Study from the UK Recommends $100 per Month for Parental Child Care: “Little Britons: Financing Childcare Choice” “[D]aycare was a long way down the list of priorities for parents in deprived families…formal childcare was actively rejected as inappropriate in…

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Thank you Newfoundland and Labrador for leading the way in funding child care equality: $1,000 for birth/adoption and $100/month for first 12 months according to a govenment press release

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Thank you Newfoundland and Labrador for leading the way in funding child care equality: $1,000 for birth/adoption and $100/month for first 12 months according to a govennment press release: May 2, 2008. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador - media release…

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Thank you to Newfoundland and Labrador for leading the way in funding parental child care: $1,000 for birth/adoption and $100/month for the first 12 months

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Thank you to Newfoundland and Labrador for leading the way in funding parental child care: $1,000 for birth/adoption and $100/month for the first 12 months:May 2, 2008, Government of Newfoundland - news release (web): "Province Unveils New Benefits to Support…

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Corporate Welfare: Labour Force expansion policies: The OECD and the World Bank seek a larger, globalized, more “flexible” Labour Force

Posted by on in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Corporate Welfare: Labour Force expansion policies (cat link): The OECD and the World Bank seek a larger, globalized, more “flexible” Labour Force. Importing low-wage labour means higher profits through lower wages. This Guardian article describes the situation in Europe. “Putting…

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Daycare Promotion by Corporate Right and Neo-Cons/Neo-Liberals

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Though often thought of as “left-wing,” daycare and other institutional care/learning have long been aggressively promoted by the corporate right, which is not known for being “family friendly.” Check out the child policy of these organizations: The World Bank (broken…

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Watch your language! A word on words: "work", "stay-at-home mum", "single-earner

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

In the income-splitting and child-care debates, it is important not to devalue the work parents—especially women—do looking after our own children or any other form of unpaid, uncommodified work. The daycare lobby devalues this work already—we do not need to…

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Billionaire McCain Displays Contempt for Low-Wage Nannies

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In the February 14, 2008 Senate Hearing, Margaret McCain, wife of the frozen-French-fry billionaire, made the following insulting unsupported comments about nannies (paid "in-house caregivers"), many of whom are immigrants from racial minorities. No Senator is recorded as questioning her…

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Care Control Revolution: UK moves away from state control of care decisions to provide direct cash benefits to elderly and disabled for care costs—why not parents? (broken link)

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Care Control Revolution: UK moves away from state control of care decisions to provide direct cash benefits to elderly and disabled for care costs—why not parents? The Health Minister calls this a “radical transfer of power from the state to…

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Article: “Parents of babies to be given ‘learning diaries’ so experts can monitor children”

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Misc.

May 29, 2007. Daily Mail - article (web): "Parents of babies to be given 'learning diaries' so experts can monitor children" This article about new Orwellian tactics was brought to our attention via Sweden. It seems there is money for…

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New Vanier Institute Report – Kids First Summary

Posted by on in Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Misc.

The Rise in the Number of Children and Adolescents Who Exhibit Problematic Behaviors: Multiple Causes A new report by the Vanier Institute for the Family speaks of the context in which children have developed dramatically increased problematic, anti-social behaviour.It very…

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New Vanier Institute Report: The Rise in the Number of Children and Adolescents Who Exhibit Problematic Behaviors: Multiple Causes (broken link)

Posted by on in Attachment, Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Physical activity, sleep, sedentary behaviour & screen time

New Vanier Institute Report: 2007. The Rise in the Number of Children and Adolescents Who Exhibit Problematic Behaviors: Multiple Causes (broken link) Kids First summaryPress Release (broken link)Globe and Mail article and readers’ comments (broken link)Recent related reports: UNICEF report…

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