3 News 8 Feb 2012
A family lobby group says parents who put their children into daycare are harming their children’s development and is calling for parents to better educate themselves on the risks. Family First director Bob McCoskrie says New Zealand has one of the highest rates of day care in the OECD with 40 percent of children under the age of two in day care for 24 hours or more per week and a further 20 percent in daycare for 36 hours or more per week. He says these numbers are unacceptable. “Full time parenting should be a child’s right, especially in those first couple of years,” Mr McCoskrie said to Firstline this morning.
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