Who Needs Parents?: Effects of Childcare and Early Education on Children in Britain and the USA (Choice in Welfare S., #31)

by Patricia M. Morgan

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In this remarkable book Patricia Morgan examines a vast corpus of research data which reveals that, while the childcare bandwagon has been gathering speed, a considerable amount of evidence has been accumulating which calls into question the idea that third-party childcare is good for children. She criticises the relentless propagandising of 'show projects' in which lavish resources are allocated to severely deprived children, for whom almost anything would been an improvement on their home circumstances. She argues that we must look at the research into the sort of childcare which ordinary mothers actually use, and that this tells a...Read more
  • ISBN10 0255363680
  • ISBN13 9780255363686
  • Publish Date October 1996
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 17 June 2002
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Civitas:Institute for the Study of Civil Society
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 174
  • Language English