My OperaJune 30th Swedish Childcare minister L Hallengren comments on daycare hazzards article in SvD
Saturday, July 1, 2006 3:54:46 PM
June 30th Swedish Childcare minister Lena Hallengren comments on daycare hazards article in SvD by Madeleine Lidman - representative of the Parents´uproar against Swedish Family Policy with its caycare obligation.
Ms Lidman pointed in her article out health dangers to kids being cared for in the public daycare centers. Tinnitus, spread of infections, accidents etc. Recent spread of multiresistant TBC in Sweden has also been investigated by Ms Lidman, who has run into difficulties geting proper information from Swedish authorities.
[B[COLOR=darkred]]Lena Hallengren comments on this article in the same Swedish daily Svenska Dabladet, JUNE 30TH.
She bluntly says that health hazzards in Swedish daycare centres are no greater than in homes. She provgides no proof of that statement, just ignoring well known issues like the high noice levels and frequent infections connected with Swedish daycare centres.[/COLOR][/B]
This attitude from Swedish socialists is typical. Confident that the Swedish Nomenclatura in politics and media in its self interest will not support any critical aspects on a system which they themselves are profiting from, surely no reporter will dig further into unfounded statements by the minister.
Not so long ago, Ms Hallengren said in Swedish Television that all the parent-victims of the Swedish daycare policy could not expect to get any support for not using the system - that is giving up their children to daycare. Almost free daycare service in Sweden is to be compared with subsidized public transport. If someone is not using such subsidized public transport, he cannot claim to get the subsidy paid to him in cash.
Now, there are many more aspects to the heavy subsidies in Swedish daycare. A normal family pays about 1 million SEK during say 40+30 years of working life in extra taxes for public daycare. If the parents of the family take care of their children themselves with only one heavily taxed salary (taxation as for a bachelor, family taxes are abolished in Sweden), they live wihout any support below a minimum level of existence and gets nothing in return of the extra one million SEK they pay in extra tax for public child care. Furthermore, they loose rights to support from a number of other social support systems, like pension, sickness payment or support, gets lower housing allowance than another family with the same net income etc. etc. Thus Ms Hallengren´s comparison with the use or not of subsidized public transport gave a false picture. Also in this case, there was no criticism against her from the prifiting nomenclatura in politics and media.
Thus the parents´upproar (www.foraldraupproret.se) continues without much support from Swedish media or politicians.
Ms Lidman pointed in her article out health dangers to kids being cared for in the public daycare centers. Tinnitus, spread of infections, accidents etc. Recent spread of multiresistant TBC in Sweden has also been investigated by Ms Lidman, who has run into difficulties geting proper information from Swedish authorities.
[B[COLOR=darkred]]Lena Hallengren comments on this article in the same Swedish daily Svenska Dabladet, JUNE 30TH.
She bluntly says that health hazzards in Swedish daycare centres are no greater than in homes. She provgides no proof of that statement, just ignoring well known issues like the high noice levels and frequent infections connected with Swedish daycare centres.[/COLOR][/B]
This attitude from Swedish socialists is typical. Confident that the Swedish Nomenclatura in politics and media in its self interest will not support any critical aspects on a system which they themselves are profiting from, surely no reporter will dig further into unfounded statements by the minister.
Not so long ago, Ms Hallengren said in Swedish Television that all the parent-victims of the Swedish daycare policy could not expect to get any support for not using the system - that is giving up their children to daycare. Almost free daycare service in Sweden is to be compared with subsidized public transport. If someone is not using such subsidized public transport, he cannot claim to get the subsidy paid to him in cash.
Now, there are many more aspects to the heavy subsidies in Swedish daycare. A normal family pays about 1 million SEK during say 40+30 years of working life in extra taxes for public daycare. If the parents of the family take care of their children themselves with only one heavily taxed salary (taxation as for a bachelor, family taxes are abolished in Sweden), they live wihout any support below a minimum level of existence and gets nothing in return of the extra one million SEK they pay in extra tax for public child care. Furthermore, they loose rights to support from a number of other social support systems, like pension, sickness payment or support, gets lower housing allowance than another family with the same net income etc. etc. Thus Ms Hallengren´s comparison with the use or not of subsidized public transport gave a false picture. Also in this case, there was no criticism against her from the prifiting nomenclatura in politics and media.
Thus the parents´upproar (www.foraldraupproret.se) continues without much support from Swedish media or politicians.
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