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A Voice of Reason (and a Rash Act Gets Strange Acclaim)
This week everyone got all bent out of shape all over again about the tiresome, yet evergreen Stay at Home With Your Kid(s) or Get a Babysitter vs. Daycare debate. Every media outlet started spouting twisted interpretations of a study that came out which, to an unsubtle and rather careless reader, someone might be able to interpret the data as suggesting that children who are in daycare grow up to be middle-schoolers with discipline problems and aggression (and excellent vocabularies).
The conclusions drawn by the mainstream media should make any reasonable person skeptical. The analysis just seems too stupid and general to be meaningful in any way except to trigger a well-worn controversy.
Happily, Emily Bazelon at Slate did some of her own research and in fact spoke to one of the people who conducted this study and has written a piece that debunks the noisier more sensational articles that got everyone's back up earlier in the week.
In the meantime, in Manila, some parents are apparently praising the day care worker who took their children hostage for 10 hours as a way to prove to the government that poor people need quality day care.
posted by Elise at 3:49 AM
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