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From: Peter Cook [pcook@midcoast.com.au]

Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2005 11:04 AM

To: Family Responsibilities

Cc: Peter S. Cook

Subject: 051108 HREOC PCook Submission Work & Family Responsibilities



Attachments: 051108 HREOC PC Submission Work & Family Responsibilities.doc

051108 HREOC PC Submission Work & Family Responsibilities 1020

The Secretary, 

Paid Work and Family Responsibilities Submission

Sex Discrimination Unit, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

GPO Box 5218, Sydney NSW 2001

Tel: 02 9284 9600

Email: webfeedback@humanrights.gov.au

Dear Sir or Madam,

Re Inquiry:  Paid Work and Family Responsibilities Submission

Thank you for your phoned advice that you would accept a late submission for consideration into this Inquiry.

1. I am sending it by email and hope it comes through satisfactorily.

Please would you confirm that it has.

I will not send it in hard copy, unless you let me know that this is necessary.

As sent, I intend that each appendix should start at the top of a fresh page in a MS Word document. If the page changes and formatting become out of line with the text in the email transfer, perhaps you would be so good as to fix these, before printing, so that each appendix starts on a fresh page. (I do not know how to ensure that these do not change.)

2. I am sending separately the digital text (in two parts) of the 1997 revised reprint of my book Early Child Care – Infants and Nations at Risk, with a Foreword by Professor Jay Belsky. This is partly in response to a statement in your Discussion Paper about the effects of early childcare, which I comment on in my final appendix. It was statements such as the one you quote on the effects of daycare that originally prompted me to write the book. The statement you have comes under the category of what Professor Belsky has described as ideology masquerading as science.

As (I think it was) Voltaire said: I am sorry this is so long, but I haven’t got time to shorten it.

3. I am also sending separately three articles - two being the most recent studies published from the NICHD Early Child Care Network studies, and one by Prof Jay Belsky, published as an editorial in The Wall Street Journal , 16th July 2003.

Many thanks,

Yours sincerely,

Peter S. Cook.