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"Babies do fine when mom works"
| Sat, 03-26-2005 - 11:08am |
I just downloaded the empirical article upon which this popular media article is based, but thought I'd post a link to the pop-media article as grist for our mill.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,151565,00.html
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"PJM posted that for her *individual* situation, the stats don't matter. I said the same for my *individual* situation."
Could you please explain why the stats don't matter to your *individual* situation? BTW, you do realize that the study wasn't based soley on center care, right?
"Technically, it's VirgoGIRL (not virgomom). . .but you can just call me Virgo. That's what most here call me."
Sorry about that :) Virgo it is !!!
"You aren't? Sure you are."
Aren't what, honest? Sure I am.
"Every adult who leaves for work and doesn't take their young kids along, has some child care arrangement about which to be honest. Including of course, the Daddies who leave the children with the Mommies."
Why do you assume that every adult WOH? You seem to be forgetting parents who SAH as well as parents who WAH.
Ahhhh, you haven't learned QM-speak.
What she means is that Mommy going to work and leaving little Timmy with DCP, is exactly the same as Daddy going to work and leaving little Timmy with Mommy.
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So if you could afford it, you'd be hiring two nannies for your two children? You'd like to see more sah with more than 1 kid hire nannies to cover the extra kids? Or are you advocating single child families?
"If we look at those which rate as 'good' to 'above average' (ie high quality), the percentages go up significantly."
Even then, the percentages are still only about 30% - 32%. Sure, this is better that 9% -12 %, but it still means that less than one third of child care settings are even in the 'good' to 'above average' range. I agree that there is a definate difference, but I don't think it is a "significant" difference. Also, I don't really see simply lowering the expectations or the standards from 'high' to 'good' or 'above average' as an effective means of addressing the issues.
Because individual situations run the gamut. Statistics only show the average. I will give an example of calorie intake. The RDA comes up with a recommended daily calorie amount. However, that calorie amount doesn't work for every person - in fact it probably doesn't work for most people. Some people's bodies need more to operate effectively and some need less. It is an average. People are different and have different needs.
It is the same thing with raising children. We all have different situations, needs, finances, personalities, opportunities, availabilities - so our solutions will be different too. What works well for one family would be disasterous for another.
There cannot be one and only one way to raise children because there are too many variables.
wow. You didn't have a SINGLE occasion where you went out without your child for FOUR years? wow.
Edited to add: did you ever want to? If so, why didn't you?
Edited 3/31/2005 1:34 pm ET ET by iaudrey00
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