“More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.” ChildrenCareFallBenefitsAreasProgramSafetyUnemploymentAssistanceSafety NetFoster CareChild CareUnemployment Benefits Author:Richard Neal
“If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?” IfsChildrenHas BeensHelpingCareSchoolParentSuccessfulCollegeHigh SchoolChild Care Author:Lamar Alexander
“Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.” ChildrenMadeHomeCareHusbandConcernedChild Care Author:Benjamin Spock
“In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.” IfsMayChildrenSaidShowsFallCoursesLeftForcePoorPayRichEssentialsPercentCapitalismTasksSickIncreaseBurdenCaringCanadaOur SocietyStatisticsGapsFamily LifeDisabledCollisionChild CareWorking Life Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.” KnowsWayWantKindChildrenBookCharacterCareKidsAgeAbleFightingReadingAttentionKnow HowChildhoodDetailsExcitementDescriptionPlotChaptersPacksBack WhenIllustrationDickensAttention SpanChild CareCliffhangerKiplingWay Back When Author:Cressida Cowell
“But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.” ChildrenLongStillsHomeCareKidsMotherFatherHoursConflictResponsibleMajoritySpendingMore TimeHouseworkWeighingLong HoursChild CareWorking Long Hours Author:Brigid Schulte
“[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.” PeopleIfsMenShouldChildrenCareMotherFatherCommunityAnswersMiddleShould HaveResponsibleCommentBoresLooking GoodMiddle AgedChild Care Author:Margaret Mead
“In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from the mom-and-pop store (or mom-and-pop farm), with its integration of child care and work, to children-at-home and dad-at-work; to the mom-plus-daddy working at home, with its integration of childcare and work again. From mom-and-pop back to mom-and-pop.” ChildrenHomeCareParentGoneMomDadAreasPopsStoresCirclesPlusFarmsIntegrationDaddyChild CareFull CircleChildcare Book:Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it Source: Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it
“The most unacknowledged spending expectation among women is the amount of time spent by single mothers caring for children, not only physically, but psychologically. It is my feeling that only a small percentage of a mother's time is normally compensated for by child support, given what a woman could make adding these hours to workforce hours. It is why women who have never been married and never had children earn so much more in the workplace than women who have had children.” ChildrenFeelingsMotherGivenHoursSupportAmountMarriedExpectationsCaringSpendingWorkplacePercentagesWorkforceTime SpentSingle MotherChild Care Author:Warren Farrell