Here we have gathered important documents which may have lost their news value but definitely not their information value. For the individual who wants to learn more about Swedish family policies, this is an important additional source of facts.
Old - but still good - news items and opinion pieces from this website
A number of basic documents filled with important facts on the subject:
Effects of child care on child development: Give parents real choice (Prof. Jay Belsky, Birkbeck University College, London U.K, March 2009) (1)
Child Care and the Labour Supply (Jennifer Buckingham; Centre for Independent Studies, NSW, Australia; July 23, 2008)
Child care: Who Benefits? (Jennifer Buckingham; Centre for Independent Studies, NSW, Australia; October 24, 2007)
Effects of Sure Start local programmes on children and families: early findings from a quasi-experimental, cross-sectional study (Jay Belsky et al; British Medical Journal; June 16, 2006)
Report: Child Day-care / Facts, Fiction, Ideologies and Agendas ("Kids First" Parent Association of Canada, June 2006). (1)
How do we measure up? (Peter Shawn Taylor, Institute of Marriage and Family, Canada, February 2006) (1) A comparison of Canada's family policies with those of other countries.
Family Policy, Family Changes - Sweden, Italy, and Britain Compared (Chapter 2, Sweden) (Patricia Morgan, UK, Civitas, 2006). (1)
How welfare states do the caring. Culture, gender and citizenship (Monique Kremer, Netherlands Institute of Care & Welfare, 2005) (1)
Universal Childcare, Maternal Labor Supply and Family Well-Being (Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER, Jonathan Gruber, MIT and NBER & Kevin Milligan, University of British Columbia and NBER. October 2005) (1)
Marriage and Family: What Does the Scandinavian Experience Tell Us? (Barbara Dafoe Whitehead & David Popenoe, The National Marriage Project, The State University of New Jersey, USA 2005)
The Failure of European Family Policy (Dr. A. Carlson, Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, Rockford Illinois USA, December 2004).
Family Policy: Lessons From the Past and New Ideas for the 21st Century (lecture by Dr Allan Carlson, Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, in the dormitory wing of the Swedish parliament (Riksdagen), May 2004).
Pre-school in transition - A national evaluation of the Swedish pre-school (The Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket), 2004).
This association's complaint to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights about Sweden's violations of the letter and spirit of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (November 2004) (1)
Fact and fantasy: Eight myths about early childhood education and care (Gordon Cleveland and Michael Krashinsky, University of Toronto, Canada, July 2003)
The Politicized Science of Day Care - A Personal and Professional Odyssey (Prof. Jay Belsky, Institute for the Study of Children, Families, and Social Issues, Birkbeck University of London, 2003) (1)
Childcare in Sweden (The Swedish Education Agency's glossy description of Sweden's near-universal childcare system intended for foreign readership, 2001) (1)
Early childhood education and care country profiles - Sweden (OECD, 2001) (1)
OECD Country Note: Early Childhood Education and Care Policy in Sweden (OECD, December 1999) (1)
The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics / The Myrdals and the Interwar Population Crisis (Dr Allan Carlson, Transaction Publishers, 1990)
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations, Nov. 1989)
The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Council of Europe, 1953)
Footnote 1: Requires access to Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can find here if you need it.
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