Category: Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care

Perry Preschool Propaganda Project Reality Check: Daycare: The More You Spend, The More You Save!!!???

Posted by on in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc.

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…

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Response to Dr. Hillel Goelman’s article “Time to get past child care myths”

Posted by on in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Quality & staff-child ratios, UBC's Human Early Learnning Partnership (HELP), EDI $ MDI, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

[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)

Posted by on in Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby

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…

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Best-selling author on parenting, therapist Steve Biddulph

Posted by on in Attachment, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health

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

Posted by on in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Policy with promise, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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”

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Misc.

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…

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