Who Needs Parents? The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on Children in Britain and the USA (Choice in Welfare) Reviews

Who Needs Parents? The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on Children in Britain and the USA (Choice in Welfare)





In this timely book 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.

Morgan criticises the relentless propagandising of 'show projects' in which lavish resources are allocated to severely deprived children, for whom almost anything would have 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 very different story. It seems that childcare children may be disadvantaged in terms of their educational performance, their behaviour and their attachment to their mothers, compared with children cared for at home. Childcare advocates claim that they only want the best quality childcare, and that it must be made available to all. However, high-quality childcare is so expensive that it could never be widely available, and those governments which have made ideological commitments to providing it have, in the end, largely given up - except on the rhetoric.









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