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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (93854)	1/18/2005 12:41:51 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, I am very old-fashioned about rearing children, myself. I do not believe in daycare for pre-school children at all, and I thought it was really interesting that a very negative report on the effects of daycare came out last year and was really squelched by the feminist lobby. Like it was traitorous to say that children in daycare are not really thriving, even though that might be the truth! I wish I could find the report, but I am having that trouble where urls do not show and I cannot copy and paste them, so perhaps I could find it later. I have nothing but sympathy for mothers who absolutely must work in order to survive, but for mothers who are simply making a choice to work when their children are little, I wish they would rethink (or not have any) unless they can work out an arrangement where one parent can be with the children almost all of the time (mothers and fathers could trade off). In primitive societies, most children breastfeed until they are four years old, and mothers sleep with their children. Children stay close to their parents and get touched and cuddled a lot more in primitive societies, as well. The lack of nurturance in American society goes way beyond non-attachment issues like sleeping in cribs and daycare. Children are not nurtured in so many ways it makes my head swim, really.