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 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. "Who Needs Parents? will one day be recognised as the Silent Spring of domestic life" The Guardian. "A study published...this week states bluntly that daycare often harms young children emotionally and educationally, and that they would fare better at home with their mothers." The Sunday Times. "I have been drawing upon an excellent analysis by the British sociologist and family-policy specialist Patricia Morgan, who has written the most definitive account I have so far seen of this entire issue." Commentary. "Morgan has done us a service...arguing against the tide in a neglected area." Howard Glennerster, The Economic Journal. "This book will stir some readers to anger. Others may be relieved that children, who have appeared to take second place in the child care debate, are once more to the fore." Community Care.
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Who Needs Parents? [is] a devastating critique of the adverse effects of daycare on children in Britain and the US. -- New Statesman
Who Needs Parents? will one day be recognised as the Silent Spring of domestic life. -- The Guardian
Who Needs Parents? will one day be recognised as the Silent Spring of domestic life. -- The Guardian
About the Author
Patricia Morgan, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Civil Society, is a sociologist specialising in criminology and family policy. Her books include Delinquent Fantasies, 1978; Facing Up to Family Income, 1989; Families in Dreamland, 1992; Farewell to the Family?, 1995; Are Families Affordable?, 1996; Who Needs Parents?, 1996; Adoption And The Care of Children, 1998; and Adoption: The Continuing Debate, 1999. She has contributed chapters to Full Circle, Family Portraits, The Loss of Virtue, Tried But Untested, Liberating Women from Modern Feminism, Just a Piece of Paper? and The Fragmenting Family, as well as articles for periodicals and national newspapers. Patricia Morgan is a frequent contributor to television and radio programmes and is presently writing a full-length work on the relationship between capitalism and the family.
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