Stay-at-Home-Parent Your insight and experiences are needed to help others!I am a mother of two boys and college professor who recently made the decision to put her career on hold to be a stay-at-home parent. The decision was surprisingly hard…
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Dec 20, 2005. Kids First Parent Association of Canada - res & com (PDF): "Daycare Dis-information Buster: What it really means when they say “The reality is that 70% of mothers are working”
October 24, 2005. Review at Stratletter of Ann Crittenden’s book, If You’ve Raised Kids You Can Manage Anything
The link below is to CBC radio show "The Current" with a top current affairs interviewer dealing with rising violence against women in Sweden. http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2005/200505/20050527.html (broken link)Scroll down to part 3 to read about the situation in Sweden. You can…
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Data from "ECEC 2004" published by the Childcare Resource and Research Unit at the University of Torontohttp://www.childcarecanada.org/ECEC2004/index.html#tocQUEBEC Regulated daycare expenditure: $1.56 billion."Spaces" are available for only 29.9% of kids age 0-12. (Quebec would have to triple expenses to $4.5 billion…
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Motherlove, crime and addiction: lessons learned from lab rats By Chella Turnbull © Crime in urban North America has taken on a new character lately. The elderly, the helpless, and charities are now the new targets. People in Vancouver were…
From: KIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADAwww.kidsfirstcanada.org The issue of child care is attracting a great deal of attention as Parliament debates the proposed Budget and its proposed National Child Care plan. Across Canada people are outraged that Hon. Ken…
Data on the cost of the Quebec system has always shown that most children are not in the system, that cost are very high, and that increased taxes paid by mothers spending more time at jobs do not come near…
Swedish family policy has not led to equality for women according to the UK Guardian: Sep 22, 2004. UK Guardian - article (web): “For decades we’ve been told Sweden is a great place to be a working parent. But we’ve…
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Unpaid Family Care Work worth $59 Billion: Statistics Canada's 2003 report, "Unpaid informal caregiving," puts the value of Canada's unpaid family child care work at $59 billion. The child-care component of this figure includes only "primary-activity child care [which] represents…
July 2000. Vincent and Woolley. IRPP - research paper (PDF): "Taxing Canadian Families: What's Fair, What's Not" This paper thankfully calls for more support for families with dependent children or other dependents, and less discriminatory/more fair for all. However the…
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No Brekky in Bed Mothers' Day social activist roots: It started in the US in 1858 when Anna Jarvis organized Mothers' Work Days to improve sanitation in the Appalachians.Julia Ward Howe (who also wrote lyrics for "The Battle Hymn of…
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