2007. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - report (PDF): Federal Budget 2007: Good News—Bad News
Category: Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care
The daycare lobby is using the “UN Convention on the Rights of the Child” to argue for more daycare (broken link)
The daycare lobby is using the “UN Convention on the Rights of the Child” to argue for more daycare. They avoid mentioning the primacy given the family and the parent-child relationship throughout the document. May 2006. report (PDF): “Canadian early…
Governor Teaches a Preschool Lesson: An article at NRO by Carrie Lukas
Governor Teaches a Preschool Lesson (broken link): An article at NRO by Carrie Lukas about the states rejecting universal preschool as costly, ineffective and interfering in the family sphere
Perry Preschool Propaganda Project Reality Check: Daycare: The More You Spend, The More You Save!!!???
Spending billions will add $2 TRILLION! Daycare lobby economists, often from the corporate sector, come to this fantastical "costs/benefit" conclusion largely based on the 1962 Perry Preschool Project. That's the study that found every $1 "invested" saves $7. It involved…
Response to Dr. Hillel Goelman’s article “Time to get past child care myths”
[Dr. Goelman, daycare lobbyist, had an article in the Vancouver Sun, Monday April 24, 2006. This response was not published by the Sun.] Hillel Goelman and Clyde Hertzman run H.E.L.P. at UBC and are leading daycare promoters. Recently they attacked…
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Do children become criminals without government-licensed daycare and preschool? (broke links)
Do children become criminals without government-licensed daycare and preschool? Carolyn Bennett, Toronto MP and candidate for Liberal leadership, said it’s good the government is building more prisons because we’ll need them since they are cancelling the daycare deals. For more…
Neither Conservative nor Liberal Daycare Plan Addresses Equality (broken link)
Neither Conservative nor Liberal Daycare Plan Addresses Equality (broken link): Published in The Hill Times, Letters, April 24, 2006
Daycare Dis-information Buster—Waitlists: Child-care lobby’s numbers are a joke
Daycare Dis-information Buster—Waitlists: Child-care lobby’s numbers are a joke (outdated link): A Winnipeg Sun article by Tom Brodbeck
More beer and popcorn (outdated link)
More beer and popcorn (outdated link): a Winnipeg Sun article
Best-selling author on parenting, therapist Steve Biddulph
March 13, 2006. The Telegraph - (web): "Best-selling author on parenting, therapist Steve Biddulph: “My warning to parents is simple: one in five children put into nursery early will develop mental health problems”"
Behind the baby gap lies a culture of contempt for parenthood
March 6, 2006. "Behind the baby gap lies a culture of contempt for parenthood": An article by Madeline Bunting published in The Guardian that points out how women’s unpaid care-work is worth more than entire GDP
Media Release March 2th, 2005: “Kids First Response to Federal Budget & Child Care Funding”
MEDIA RELEASERESPONSE TO THE BUDGET - CHILD CARE PROPOSALKIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADA604-291-0088 Kids First Parent Association of Canada is calling for a budget amendment that will uphold the Constitution when it come to child care policy. All are…
American “feminist” slams mothers with degrees who look after their own kids
American "feminist" slams mothers with degrees who look after their own kids February 22, 2006. ABC - article (web): "'Mommy Wars': To Work or Stay at Home?" "A good life for humans includes the classical standard of using one's capacities…
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Media release February 9, 2005: “Message to Fed-Prov Territorial Meeting: Legal Challenge Sought to Daycare Discrimination”
Joint Media Release February 9th, 2005 JOINT MEDIA RELEASE From: Kids First Parent Association of Canada and Citizens in Favour of Equal Government Childcare Subsidies For all Children / Les Citonyen(ne)s en Faveur de L'equite Fiscale des Subventions Pour Soins…
Parents vs State Intervention in Child-Rearing: Clarifying our Roles
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…
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