Children's Right to Their Parents Sweden

Archive

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

Covering the period up to a few months ago

A number of basic documents filled with important facts on the subject:

Lessons Learned from Swedish Family Policies (Notes from lecture delivered by Jonas Himmelstrand, November 2010)
Effects of child care on child development: Give parents real choice (Prof. Jay Belsky, Birkbeck University College, London U.K, March 2009) (1)
Official statistics of Sweden - National level (website of the National Swedish Agency of Education)
Child Care and the Labour Supply (Jennifer Buckingham; Centre for Independent Studies, NSW, Australia; July 23, 2008)
Columbia University's Social Policies Factfile on Sweden (Columbia University's Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth and Family Policies, May 2008)
Sociobiology in Sweden - from taboo to partial acceptance (Birgitta S. Tullberg, Department of Zoology @ Stockholm University & Svante Folin, Sweden's Army Museum, January 2008)
Child care: Who Benefits? (Jennifer Buckingham; Centre for Independent Studies, NSW, Australia; October, 2007)
Stress in Daycare (Sir Richard Bowlby, SocialBaby.com, April 2007)
Are There Long-Term Effects of Early Child Care? (Jay Belsky et al, the NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, March 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)
Family Policy, Family Changes - Sweden, Italy, and Britain Compared (Chapter 2, Sweden) (Patricia Morgan, UK, Civitas, 2006). (1)
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.
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)
The court appeal of Ms Carolina Kaya of Malmö, Sweden, about her municipality's refusal to grant her permission to open up a daycare facility which would enable her to look after her own son (September 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)
How welfare states do the caring. Culture, gender and citizenship (Monique Kremer, Netherlands Institute of Care & Welfare, 2005) (1)
The Failure of European Family Policy (Dr. A. Carlson, Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society, Rockford Illinois USA, December 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)
Sweden's Financial Family Policy (website published by the Swedish Government, describing the various support systems available to families with children to avoid poverty.)
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).
Swedish Family Policy (Ministry of Health and Social Affairs of Sweden, September 2003) (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)
Early childhood education and care country profiles - Sweden (OECD, July 2002) (1)
Childcare in Sweden (The Swedish Education Agency's glossy description of Sweden's near-universal childcare system intended for foreign readership, 2001) (1)
OECD Country Note: Early Childhood Education and Care Policy in Sweden (OECD, December 1999) (1)
Effects of Day-care on Cognitive and Socio-emotional Competence of Thirteen-year-old Swedish Schoolchildren (Prof. Bengt-Erik Andersson, Department of Education, Stockholm University, 1992)
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)
Effects of Public Day-care: a Longitudinal Study (Prof. Bengt-Erik Andersson, Department of Education, Stockholm University, August 1989)
The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Council of Europe, 1953)
This convention is incorporated into Swedish law as a dispositive Constitutional Act. That is, it applies as a another Constitutional Act to the extent that it does not contradict our other fundamental acts.
In the document, Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life, Article 14 – Prohibition of discrimination and Protocol 1, Article 2 – Right to education, are of particular interest from a family policies perspective.

Footnote 1: Requires access to Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can find here if you need it.