{"id":11053,"date":"2009-02-03T03:45:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/times_childcare_children_pay_price_as_adults_put_themselves_first\/"},"modified":"2009-02-03T03:45:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:45:24","slug":"times_childcare_children_pay_price_as_adults_put_themselves_first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11053","title":{"rendered":"Times&#8211;Childcare children pay price \u201d\u02dcas adults put themselves first\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s lives are being blighted by \u201cobsessive\u201d\u009d testing, relentless advertising and a long-hours culture that contributes to family breakdown, the Archbishop of Canterbury says in a report published today.<\/p>\n<p>In a scathing attack on a society that he says is organised around the needs and desires of adults, Dr Rowan Williams argues that people must change their ways if Britain is to become a better place for children to grow up in.<\/p>\n<p>He also makes an impassioned plea for marriage to be encouraged and valued, not least to set an example to young people about commitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn plain terms, it will not serve us as a society, and it will not serve the growing generation, if we simply regard marriage as just one option in the marketplace of lifestyles,\u201d\u009d he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/women.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/life_and_style\/women\/families\/article5636038.ece\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenssociety.org.uk\/all_about_us\/how_we_do_it\/the_good_childhood_inquiry\/1818.html\">Please note: the full report as well as the summary thereof may be found via the links provided here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s lives are being blighted by \u201cobsessive\u201d\u009d testing, relentless advertising and a long-hours culture that contributes to family breakdown, the Archbishop of Canterbury says in a report published today. In a scathing attack on a society that he says is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11053\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,67,101,199,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-children","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}