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Daycare Lobby Pushes For More Money Using COVID Recovery as Pretext to Fund Doomed Industry

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 7, 2020July 8, 2020in COVID-19, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liveralism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Daycare has always caused serious infection risks for children and their families according to the peer reviewed research. Now COVID-19 causes fear in parents and staff, dramatically reducing attendance as well as labour supply. Governments have established 'safety' protocols for…

CD Howe Institute Intelligence Memos – “Thoughts on forestalling the coming childcare crisis”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 24, 2020July 8, 2020in COVID-19, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liveralism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Uncategorized, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

June 24, 2020 - CD Howe Institute Intelligence Memos - by Ken Boessenkool organizer with Liberal and Conservative parties and Jennifer Robson Carlton University professor and policy advisor - "Thoughts on forestalling the coming childcare crisis"https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/boessenkool-robson-%E2%80%93-thoughts-forestalling-coming-childcare-crisis Or see PDF here…

“National child-care strategy will be a lynch pin of economic recovery”, says Martha Friendly

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 19, 2020July 8, 2020in COVID-19, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liveralism, defamilialization, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Uncategorized, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

June 19, 2020 - CBC radio The Sunday Edition - interview with a top daycare lobbyist - "National child-care strategy will be a lynch pin of economic recovery", says Martha Friendly: We don't know what the fall out will be…

Should Parents Be Paid?

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 3, 2019May 23, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Uncategorized, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

October 3, 2019 New York Times article: Stay at Home Parents Work Hard: Should They Be Paid?

Media Release: International Women’s Day complaint to federal government: end discrimination against mothers caring for their kids

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 8, 2018May 22, 2020in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Uncategorized, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

MEDIA RELEASE Burnaby, BC - March 8, 2018 - Kids First Parent Association of Canada is marking International Women's Day by submitting a formal complaint to the federal government regarding discrimination. A letter submitted today outlines discrimination against both mothers…

March 8, 2018 – International Women's Day

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 8, 2018May 22, 2020in Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, Law, legal cases, formal complaints, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Uncategorized, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Our government thinks maternal child care is bad for women and children and the economy. Our leaders want to "GET MOTHERS BACK TO WORK" and get our children into full time LICENSED DAYCARE so we can be "PRODUCTIVE" in the…

The Daycare Lobby’s Misogyny

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon August 31, 2017May 21, 2020in Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Uncategorized, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

August 31, 2017: Cardus op-ed by Helen Ward: The Daycare Lobby's Misogyny . Regarding government and corporate schemes to bully mothers away from our kids and into full time jobs we ask: With feminist like this, who needs patriarchy?

Mothers' & fathers' paid work grossly over-stated by daycare proponents

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon June 5, 2017May 23, 2020in Uncategorized, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Mothers' & fathers' paid work grossly over-stated by daycare proponents: About 1/2 of mothers and 2/3 of fathers do paid work on an average day June 1, 2017. Patricia Houle, Martin Turcotte, and Michael Wendt. Statistics Canada - report: "Changes…

Exploiting women through childcare

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon August 15, 2016May 20, 2020in Costs & costs-benefit analysis, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Parental preference, Uncategorized, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Aug 10, 2016: Financial Post article, Exploiting women through childcare. The Federal government is considering a $500M "child care" subsidy program in order to increase mothers' employment. Is this what women want? Does cheap daycare increase mothers' labour force participation?

It’s Payback Time for Women

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 10, 2016May 18, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Uncategorized, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

Jan. 8, 2016, New York Times article: Unpaid care work - Finland announces Universal Basic Income for all adults. It's Payback Time for Women