Category: Parents’ and Children’s Rights

Swedish legal case involving a family wishing to care for their own child

Posted by on in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Power imbalance between parents & state, Sweden

Swedish legal case involving a family wishing to care for their own child:September 19, 2005. Carolina Kaya - appeal document (PDF): "Re: Appeal for reversal of a municipal decision"

The Failure of European Family Policy: Does Daycare Raise Birthrates in Sweden? (broken link)

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The Failure of European Family Policy (broken link): Does Daycare Raise Birthrates in Sweden? Dr. Allan Carlson, historian of Swedish family policy, demonstrates the falseness of the claim that Sweden has overcome sub-replacement fertility rates: policy that coerces mothers into…

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Financial Post: March 7th, 2005

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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…

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