Child Care Quotes

• Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, School, Skills

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• As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.

  Susan Oliver

  Children, Taken, Cities

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• Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

  Mel Carnahan

  Jobs, Children, Training

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• Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Children, Educational, Opportunity

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• Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

  Augustus

  Husband, Children, Giving Up

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• I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Children, Able, Care

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• 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.

  Richard Neal

  Children, Fall, Safety

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• Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are supporting nurturing child care environments where children can thrive.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Education, Children, Gay

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• It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Nice, Issues

  "State of the Union Recap: Key Points You Need to Know from President Obama's 2015 Address" by Caitlin Moscatello, www.glamour.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Child care is an invisible part of the economy.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Children, Care, Invisible

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• I found a nanny/child care position in Beverly Hills taking care of a 3-year-old and a 17-year-old. They had a large, wealthy house. I learned that I liked the way rich people lived. I learned that they were not smarter than me.

  Mark Burnett

  Children, Years, People

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

  Melanne Verveer

  Children, Quality, Bombs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Children, Believe, Sacrifice

  Interview with Simon&Schuster, www.simonandschuster.co.uk.

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• The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.

  Arnold Gesell

  Baby, Children, Selfish

  Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg (1951). “Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (From the Former Clinic of Child Development, School of Medicine at Yale University)”

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• The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Kids, Care

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• The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Dad, Parenting

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, 9th Edition”, p.580, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from being at ease and it really stifles the social and economic growth of a family. Women are hit hard across the board, but particularly in homes where the mother is the head of the household and the only wage-earner. It hurts her, and it hurts her children.

  Nina Turner

  Mother, Hurt, Children

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers have. If bad guilt is a monster, good guilt is a friendly fairy godmother, yakking away in your head to keep you alert to the needs of your baby.

  Jean Marzollo

  Baby, Children, Responsibility

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• There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

  Harriet Harman

  Children, Quality, Care

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• If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable.

  Nina Turner

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.21, HarperCollins

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• Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

  Edward Zigler

  Mother, Children, Father

  "The Progressive". Interview with Ruth Conniff, June 1, 2002.

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• The reason child care is such a loaded issue is that when we talk about it, we are always tacitly talking about motherhood. And when we're talking about motherhood we're always tacitly assuming that child care must be a very dim second to full-time mother care.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Talking

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.36, Random House

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• Perhaps one reason that many working parents do not agitate for collective reform, such as more governmental or corporate child care, is that the parents fear, deep down, that to share responsibility for child rearing is to abdicate it.

  Faye J Crosby

  Children, Responsibility, Working Parents

  Faye J. Crosby (1993). “Juggling: the unexpected advantages of balancing career and home for women and their families”, Touchstone

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• I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Believe, Reform

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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