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Behind the baby gap lies a culture of contempt for parenthood

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon March 26, 2006July 7, 2020in 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

Every Mother is a Working Mother in Venezuela: Unpaid Home-Workers of Venezuela Fight Bureaucrats to Assure President Hugo Chavez’s Revolutionary Promise of Remuneration

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon February 4, 2006July 7, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

(espanol abajo)STATEMENT FROM WOMEN HOUSEWIVE WORKERS IN THE HOME TO OUR PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ FRIAS—4 February 2006We see the need to issue this statement given the imminent emergency of having to spend another year without a budget or begging here…

Parents vs State Intervention in Child-Rearing: Clarifying our Roles

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 26, 2006June 29, 2020in Breastfeeding, Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Discrimination against parents, children, and parental child care, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. ), Misc., Policy with promise, Power imbalance between parents & state, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

January 4, 2006 Last month, Scott Reid, chief of communications for the Liberal Party, repeatedly insisted that parents would "blow" the $1200/year per child 0-5 promised by the Conservative Party on beer, popcorn and videos. Another aide supported him and…

Mum professor seeking input from “at-home” parents for book

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon January 1, 2006June 29, 2020in Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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…

Daycare Dis-information Buster: What it really means when they say “The reality is that 70% of mothers are working”

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon December 20, 2005June 29, 2020in Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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”

Review of Ann Crittenden’s book, If You’ve Raised Kids You Can Manage Anything

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon October 24, 2005June 29, 2020in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

October 24, 2005. Review at Stratletter of Ann Crittenden’s book, If You’ve Raised Kids You Can Manage Anything

Does Daycare Lower ‘Child Poverty’ and Get Mums into Jobs? Quebec Experiment Results: No

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 25, 2005July 7, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Misc., Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Ontario, Quebec, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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…

Swedish family policy has not led to equality for women according to the UK Guardian

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 22, 2004June 29, 2020in Disinformation by daycare/all-day K lobby, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Sweden, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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…

Unpaid Family Care Work worth $59 Billion

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon September 1, 2003May 16, 2020in Misc., Women & Work, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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…

Taxing Canadian Families: What’s Fair, What’s Not – With KF Commentary

Posted by kidsfirstcanadaon July 14, 2000July 14, 2020in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

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…