A new blog devoted to childcare issues.
An alarming number of college-educated women are leaving the work force to stay at home and raise their children, a trend that is a tragedy not only for the mothers, but ultimately their children and women as a whole.
So said law professor and working mom Linda Hirshman in a 2005 article for American Prospect magazine that has ignited an intense debate among mothers.
A good one to bookmark as the next few weeks are likely to see lots of media noise from groups like the federally funded Child Care Advocacy Ass’n of Canada. (Gormley – next time you have these people on your show, be sure to push your guest on where they get their funding.)
Update: a note from Helen Ward, President of Kids First Parent Assoc of Canada;
Please check out our website kidsfirstcanada.org for extensive research into daycare . I emailed the Child Care Advocacy Assoc of Can a long time ago to request their finincial statements (as their website says) and they did not respond.
Below is from my report “Fact and Fiction , Ideologies and Agendas” (PDF)
We are 100% volunteer run since 1987, and receive $0 from gov. One request for
funding some years ago was turned down: we were told we are “regressive”. Must
go now and see about getting one of them white picket fences!
Ontario could claw back child-care benefit
CBC Toronto – 4 hours ago
Some of Ontario’s poorest families might never see the monthly child-care allowance proposed by the federal government. The provincial government is expected to deduct the annual $1,200 child-care benefit …
Ontario might claw back federal child-care cash CBC Nova Scotia
Provinces May Claw Back Harper’s New Child-Care Cheques From … Halifax Live +
via goodlenews
yes, because McGuinty does not consider a parent who is at home with their children CHILDCARE… yet if that parents takes a course of school while on welfare it is covered and doesn’t effect the welfare check at all!