Childcare Quotes

• A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform.

  Jim Wallis

  Years, Iraq, Reform

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• And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

  James Levine

  Men, Years, Lasts

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• My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Running, Kids, Games

  "Mind the beer, dear" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2006.

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• Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

  Mem Fox

  Baby, Stress, Levels

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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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• 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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• I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'

  Maya Harris

  Jobs, Choices, Needs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

  Maya Harris

  Parent, Being A Parent, Hard

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Men worry about childcare with their wallets, women feel it in their wombs.

  Allison Pearson

  Children, Men, Worry

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• Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Fall, Numbers, Work Out

  "Sheryl Sandberg Is Half Right" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

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• Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

  Tim Johnson

  Children, Poor Quality, Support

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• In a sense, in the area of child care, children's relationships with parents' working has come full circle. We have gone from the mom-and-pop store (or mom-and-pop farm), with its integration of child care and work, to children-at-home and dad-at-work; to the mom-plus-daddy working at home, with its integration of childcare and work again. From mom-and-pop back to mom-and-pop.

  Warren Farrell

  Mom, Children, Dad

  Warren Farrell (2005). “Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and what Women Can Do about it”, p.131, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• People from authoritarian, male-dominated, punitive families tend to vote for "strongman" leaders and for "hard" punitive policies (prisons, wars) rather than "soft" caring policies (healthcare, childcare). Not everyone from this background does. But many people do. And this conditioning can be exploited, as Trump's campaign did, especially in times like ours of economic, social, and technological upheaval.

  Riane Eisler

  War, Caring, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Day care poses no risk for children, provided that it is high quality.... Poor quality day care is risky for children everywhere.... The cost of poor quality day care is measured in children's lives. High quality day care costs only money.

  Sandra Scarr

  Children, Day Care, Poor Quality

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• The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.

  Michelle Obama

  Mean, Kids, Weekend

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• Women are more focused on the development of the quality of life in their countries. They are more involved in social and family policies, childcare, and poverty reduction.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Country, Poverty Reduction, Quality

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Motor Racing Outreach is great. They provide a chapel service every Sunday for drivers, wives, crew members, and others in the NASCAR industry so that we can gather and celebrate our faith. It's important to me to have this time before the race on Sundays. They also provide other services such as at-track childcare and counseling.

  Austin Dillon

  Sunday, Motor Racing, Race

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Struggle, Simple, Two

  "Celebrating Family and Medical Leave Act With Family Values" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2013.

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• Let's provide family leave that is paid and access to affordable, high-quality childcare.

  Hillary Clinton

  Quality, Affordable, Paid

  Source: time.com

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• Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.

  Natalie Portman

  Equal Pay, Want, Clinton

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The fact that [Hillary Clinton] is pushing for paid family leave and also for [affordable] childcare will make a huge difference for working women who aren't as lucky as I am to be able to hire a nanny when I work. And who aren't lucky enough to necessarily have their husbands be able to take off work. That will make a huge, huge difference.

  Natalie Portman

  Husband, Differences, Able

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The issue of childcare is the missing link in the full contribution of women to our society and to our economy.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Issues, Missing, Links

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else.

  Hillary Clinton

  Night, College, Issues

  Source: time.com

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• Many [most] of Ivanka's [Trump] ideals are the platform of the democratic party. Her father [Donald Trump] has never mentioned anything she spoke about in her RNC speech. He doesn't talk about childcare, equal pay, women's rights.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Father, Party, Rights

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• [Motherhood] is an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources. You need access to childcare and good safe schools.

  Chrissy Teigen

  School, Motherhood, Support You

  Source: www.glamour.com

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