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Kids First Canada: May 2013 Poll: Large Majority Wants Parental Child Care & Funding for Families, Not Daycare
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May 2013 Poll: Large Majority Wants Parental Child Care and Funding for Families, Not Daycare. Kids First media release. Burnaby, British Columbia, May 23, 2012 - A new poll confirms what Kids First Parent Association of Canada has been saying for years. A large majority of Canadians prefer parental child care over any other form of child care, and would like to see funding going directly to families rather than to a daycare system. The problem lies in public funding of the daycare lobby. For example...
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Kids First Canada: Join the Movement for Family-Friendly PolicyA Much Needed Policy Document
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Join the Movement for Family-Friendly Policy A Much Needed Policy Document. We need parents to be at the centre of policy for families and children. Currently the powerful organized voices - and therefore the special interests - of business, academics, researchers, social service unions and professionals dominate policy formation. They even use your tax dollars to lobby for policies that discriminate against parents. This means that parents and our children are sidelined. Let's correct the POWER IMBALANCE.
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Kids First Canada: Landmark Human Rights Case for Families
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Landmark Human Rights Case for Families. A court ruled that child care is a real need and not a life style choice and that the employer must make accommodation for this need as would be required for disability or religious belief under Canadian Human Rights law. Discrimination about child care needs was considered discrimination on the grounds of "family status". For example, tax policy defines "child care" to specifically exclude parental child care in the Child Care Expense Deduction. To Top of Page.
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Sarah Godoy's reponse to opinion piece in The Province
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Sarah Godoy's reponse to opinion piece in The Province. Written in response to The Province. Opinion piece: Child care money is just more Tory sexism. To Top of Page. Kids First has no political or religious affiliation and seeks to. Work with all parties and all interests to seek equality for all families. Current Issues and Action. Fund the Child Movement. Book List: Recommended Reading. How You Can Help. E-Tango Creative Web Design.
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Kids First Canada: Child Care Poll: Parents Group Calls for Fair Democratic Child Care Funding
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Child Care Poll: Parents Group Calls for Fair Democratic Child Care Funding. Media release: Burnaby, Oct 10, 2013. Kids First Parent Association of Canada is calling for fair child care policies that reflect what Canadians want. A solid majority of highly educated Canadians say that parental child care is best, according to the release this week of findings from a poll conducted by Abingdon Research for the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. Kids First President, Helen Ward, says, The poll demonstr...
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Kids First Canada: HELP KIDS FIRST MAKE A HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINT AGAINST UNJUST DISCRIMINATION IN CHILD CARE LAWS
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HELP KIDS FIRST MAKE A HUMAN RIGHTS COMPLAINT AGAINST UNJUST DISCRIMINATION IN CHILD CARE LAWS. The child shall have the right to be cared for by his or her parents. Governments] shall respect the responsibilities, rights and duties of parents to provide appropriate direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of the rights recognized in the present Convention. From the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Articles 7.1, 5. Universal Declaration of Human Rights Article 26.3. Even within benefit...
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Kids First Canada: Polls Consistently Show Large Majority Prefer Parental Child Care and Funding for Families not Daycare System
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Polls Consistently Show Large Majority Prefer Parental Child Care. SWEDEN (daycare capital of the world): Polls show 64% say parents should get financial support to care for their children. CANADA: Vanier Institute for the Family 2004. 9 out of 10 say one parent should be at home with preschool child" and 6-7 out of 10 say same for elementary school age child. Parental care is ranked #1, daycare centre care is ranked #5. Vanier Institute survey, 2004, section 5 and section 8 - #5). Fund the Child Movement.
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Kids First Canada: Violating parental consent with "passive consent": kids used as junk science research subjects by UBC's HELP
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Violating parental consent with "passive consent": kids used as junk science research subjects by UBC's HELP. The following letter, article, and editorial appeared in the Boundary Creek Times. June 13 letter: Questions of value and consent raised. June 13 editorial opposing passive consent. June 2013 email form HELP declining to provide copy of MDI at present:. Kids First has no political or religious affiliation and seeks to. Work with all parties and all interests to seek equality for all families.
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Kids First Canada: Tax-Funded Daycare Lobbying
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Astro-turf Grassroots: How much we pay some top tax-funded child poverty/daycare lobbyists. In yet another egregious example of tax-funded lobbying for policies that discriminate against parental child care we have the $10/ day daycare " Generation Squeeze. Campaign run by Paul Kershaw and Lynelle Anderson through UBC's Human Early Learning Partnership (HELP), which is very generously funded by the BC government. Kershaw is a sociologist. Despite his 6-figure salary. Current Issues and Action.
