To deny the need for comprehensive child care policies is to deny a reality--that there's been a revolution in American life. Gran...dma doesn't live next door anymore, Mom doesn't work just because she'd like a few bucks for the sugar bowl.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question is still asked of women: "How do you propose to answer the need for child care?" That is an obvious attempt to struct...ure conflict in the old terms. The questions are rather: "If we as a human community want children, how does the total society propose to provide for them?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have children if they have... any intention of leaving their side in their early years. . . . Children don't need parents' full-time attendance or attention at any stage of their development. Many people will help take care of their needs, depending on who their parents are and how they chose to fulfill their roles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your child should feel entitled to cry when you leave; crying is a natural thing for a child to do when she feels bad. The fact th...at your child cries when you go doesn't mean she will never like day care. It just means she wants you to stay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every day care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choi...ce is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Jus...t as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Day care poses no risk for children, provided that it is high quality.... Poor quality day care is risky for children everywhere....... The cost of poor quality day care is measured in children's lives. High quality day care costs only money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »