2005. Laurie Monsabraaten. Toronto Star - (news article): "The 'Tiny Tot' brigade; The daycare lobby believed it might actually for the first time in 30 years taste victory a publicly funded, national child-care program. But defeat seems to be making…
Category: Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP
WSJ – “A Dangerous Experiment in Child Rearing”
1998 (posted 2021 March). Andrew Peyton Thomas. Wall Street Journal - (article): "A Dangerous Experiment in Child Rearing". PDF excerpt copy for reference Edward Zigler, co-founder of US Head Start program, called daycare centres "PSYCHOLOGICAL THALIDOMIDE"The research cited in this…
Canada & England’s Top Banker Says The GDP Is An Inadequate Measure
March 2021. Mark Carney. CBC radio/BBC – (lecture): “BBC Reith Lectures: Mark Carney, Part Three“ . Mark Carney, former Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, says that the GDP is inadequate to measure what we value…
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Media release: BC parties’ daycare promises ignore majority of families, miss opportunity to earn votes
KIDS FIRST PARENT ASSOCIATION OF CANADA http://www.kidsfirstcanada.org info@kidsfirstcanada.org Media release: BC parties’ daycare promises ignore majority of families, miss opportunity to earn votes Burnaby, BC - October 15, 2020 - BC’s political parties have missed the opportunity to earn votes…
Daycare Lobby Pushes For More Money Using COVID Recovery as Pretext to Fund Doomed Industry
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”
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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…
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Exploiting women through childcare
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
Jan. 8, 2016, New York Times article: Unpaid care work - Finland announces Universal Basic Income for all adults. It's Payback Time for Women
Full Equality For Women (broken link)
FULL EQUALITY FOR WOMEN: Funding for family care work embraced by economists and lawyers "every mother is a working mother" Sept 2014 "Setting a wage for homemaking" - Mercatornet (broken link)September 2014 "Taking Unpaid Housework for Granted Is Wrong" -…