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

topic: Children, School, Skills, Social Skills, Child Care

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

topic: Children, Taken, Cities, Taken For Granted, Child Care

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

- Mel Carnahan

topic: Jobs, Children, Training, Welfare Recipients, Child Care

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

topic: Children, Educational, Opportunity, Quality Care, Quality Health Care

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

topic: Children, Giving Up, Husband, Child Care, Responsibility For Children

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

topic: Children, Care, Able, Child Care

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

topic: Children, Fall, Safety, Foster Care, Child Care

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

topic: Children, Hands, Knowing, Early Childhood, Child Care

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

source: "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.

topic: Children, Nice, Issues, Child Care

Child care is an invisible part of the economy.

- Ellen Galinsky

topic: Children, Care, Invisible, Child Care

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

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

topic: Children, Years, People, Child Care

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

- Melanne Verveer

topic: Children, Quality, Bombs, Child Care, Ticking Time

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

- Richard Paul Evans

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

topic: Children, Believe, Sacrifice, Child Care, Self Centeredness

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

source: 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)”

topic: Baby, Children, Selfish, Dependence, Child Care

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

topic: Children, Kids, Care, Child Care

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

- Benjamin Spock

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

topic: Children, Dad, Parenting, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

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

topic: Mother, Hurt, Children, Child Care

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

topic: Baby, Children, Responsibility, Love And Responsibility, Child Care

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

- Harriet Harman

topic: Children, Quality, Care, Child Care

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

topic: Mother, Jobs, Children, Child Care, Living Wage

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

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

topic: Children, Book, Reading, Child Care

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

- Edward Zigler

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

topic: Mother, Children, Father, Child Care, Mother And Father

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

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

topic: Mother, Children, Talking, Mother Care, Child Care

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

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

topic: Children, Responsibility, Parent, Child Care, Working Parents

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

source: Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

topic: Children, Believe, Reform, Child Care

Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.

- Jim Stanford

source: Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

topic: Children, Caring, Impact, Life Affirming, Child Care

Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.

- Mary Frances Berry

topic: Children, Care, Spheres, Child Care

You may, or may not, have better child care instincts than your husband; but his can certainly be developed. If you don't respectthe natural parenting talents that each of you has, you may inadvertently cast the two of you into the skewed but complementary roles of the Expert and the Dumb Apprentice.

- Jean Marzollo

source: Jean Marzollo (1991). “Your Maternity Leave”, Poseidon Press

topic: Husband, Children, Two, Child Care, Complementary

We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Children, Care, Skirts, St Patrick, Child Care

The most unacknowledged spending expectation among women is the amount of time spent by single mothers caring for children, not only physically, but psychologically. It is my feeling that only a small percentage of a mother's time is normally compensated for by child support, given what a woman could make adding these hours to workforce hours... It is why women who have never been married and never had children earn so much more in the workplace than women who have had children.

- Warren Farrell

topic: Mother, Children, Caring, Workforce, Child Care

I think there are many people in the working class who say, you know what? Yes, maybe we are better off than we were eight years ago, but I am still working two or three jobs, my kid can't afford to go to college, I can't afford child care, my real wages have been going down for 40 years. The middle class is shrinking. Who's standing up for me?

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Jobs, Children, Real, Child Care

You can read the best experts on child care. You can listen to those who have been there. You can take a whole childbirth and child-care course without missing a lesson. But you won't really know a thing about yourselves and each other as parents, or your baby as a child, until you have her in your arms. That's the moment when the lifelong process of bringing up a child into the fold of the family begins.

- Stella Chess

topic: Baby, Children, Parent, Child Care

[Donald Trump] would give wealthy families 30 cents or 40 cents on the dollar for their nannies, and little or nothing for millions of hardworking families trying to afford child care.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Children, Giving, Trying, Child Care

There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great majority, polls say 65% to 75% of women of America, of all ages, absolutely identify with the complete agenda of the women's movement: equal opportunity for jobs, education, professional training, the right to control your own body - your own reproductive process, freedom of choice, child care-the whole agenda.

- Betty Friedan

source: Source: articles.latimes.com

topic: Jobs, Children, Opportunity, Male Chauvinist, Freedom Of Choice

My plan will also help reduce the cost of child care by allowing parents to fully deduct the average cost of child care spending from their taxes.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Children, Average, Parent, Child Care

We have to make it easier to be good workers, good parents and good caregivers all at the same time. That's why I've set out a bold vision to make quality, affordable child care available to all Americans and limit the cost to 10 percent of family income.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Hillary Clinton Delivers Economic Speech". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. August 11, 2016.

topic: Children, Parent, Vision, Caregivers, Child Care

The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.

- Tony Abbott

source: Joint statement with Social Services Minister, Scott Morrison, edition.cnn.com. April 13, 2015.

topic: Children, Choices Made, Research, Medical Research, Child Care

We have to change men's expectations, as they grow up, regarding their share of domestic work, of child care, but also of elder care, which is less pleasant and which men don't want to do.

- Martha C. Nussbaum

source: Source: www.neh.gov

topic: Children, Growing Up, Men, Child Care

Three factors--the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at work--have taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.

- Arlie Russell Hochschild

topic: Husband, Children, Taken, Child Care, Ex Husband

We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.

- Van Jones

source: Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

topic: Jobs, Children, Training, Child Care, Internships

Where America has got to move is not growth for the sake of growth, but it`s got to move to a society that provides a high quality of life for all of our people. In other words, if people have health care as a right, as do the people of every other major country, then there's less worry about growth. If people have educational opportunity and their kids can go to college and they have child care, then there's less worry about growth for the sake of growth.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Country, Children, Educational, Child Care

The question is still asked of women: 'How do you propose to answer the need for child care?' That is an obvious attempt to structure conflict in the old terms. The questions are rather: 'If we as a human community want children, how does the total society propose to provide for them?'.

- Jean Baker Miller

topic: Children, Community, Doe, Child Care

No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Peace, Children, Stress, Child Care

It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.

- Sheryl Sandberg

topic: Children, Home, Careers, Child Care, Full Life

I think [women] should be armed but should not vote...women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it...its always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Children, Thinking, Ideas, Child Care, Day Care

I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it's each baby for herself.

- Jennifer Granholm

source: "Republicans: What About Children Outside the Womb?" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2012.

topic: Baby, Children, Caring, Child Care

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

- Charlotte Sophia Kasl

topic: Dance, Children, Struggle, Caretakers, Child Care

You think people can work all day and then pick up their kids at child care or wherever and get home and still manage to sandwich in an eight-hour vote? Well Republicans, I guess can do that. Because a lot of them have never made an honest living in their lives.

- Howard Dean

topic: Children, Home, Kids, Child Care, Honest Living

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

- Janet Yellen

topic: Children, Training, Care, Child Care

I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Children, Kids, College, Child Care, Hallways