Child Care
We suggest:
- Children thrive best in healthy and stable families.
- Child care is the care of the child, no matter who provides that care.
- Public policy on childcare should
- place the child’s wellbeing first,
- recognize that children and families have diverse needs and situations, and
- be equitable and flexible to accommodate the various childcare options that families may choose to meet their needs.
Supporting Research
Start Here
January 21, 2019
Avoiding the social and economic pitfalls of "universal" child care.
Andrea Mrozek,
Peter Jon Mitchell,
Brian Dijkema
May 6, 2021
The federal budget of 2021 offers national daycare at a cost of $30 billion over five years, with an annual cost of $9.2 billion after that. This sounds like a lot of funding, but is it enough?
This research report offers a detailed assessment of the real cost of national daycare and the amounts that provincial governments will realistically be responsible for contributing once the federal funding is spent.
Peter Jon Mitchell,
Andrea Mrozek
April 7, 2021
Strong, stable families are irreplaceable and are foundational to a healthy society. Good family policy can also enhance family well-being by addressing the diverse needs of families and their most vulnerable members, children.
Explorations
June 22, 2021
Join us as we Exit COVID: Toward what matters most.
Winnie Lui,
Todd Martin
November 13, 2020
Winnie Lui reports on research by Trinity Western sociologist Todd Martin revealing that around the world even the hardships of the pandemic have become sources of family strength.
Peter Stockland,
Peter Jon Mitchell
September 17, 2019
Peter Jon Mitchell, acting director of Cardus Family, details a new report showing how federal and provincial child care policies distort the way Canadians care for their kids.
Media Coverage
June 6, 2023
"The promotion of $10-a-day child care as economic policy illustrates the problem with Canadian family policy, which is that we don’t have one," writes Peter Jon Mitchell, Family Program Director at Cardus and author of the report Envisioning a Federal Family-Formation Policy Framework for Canada.
Photo by Juan Encalada on Unsplash
May 30, 2023
Adding bureaucracy just makes things more expensive for Canadians, argues Matthew Lau in the Financial Post. To support his argument, he cites Cardus Senior Fellow Andrea Mrozek's work in The Hub detailing the bureaucratic bloat that comes with child care spending in Ontario.
May 22, 2023
"The complexity of a national childcare plan comes with millions of dollars for expenditures outside of actual childcare provision," writes Cardus senior fellow Andrea Mrozek in The Hub. "In Ontario, that happens at all three levels of government. The details of that spending deserve much greater scrutiny than they’ve received so far."
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