Day Care and the Middle Class
March 28, 2012
The Daily Mail reports that an extensive Canadian study has found that middle class children in day care suffer more developmental delays, aggressive behavior and health problems than those at home. Affluent families are little affected by day care because they don’t use it. And children from poor families benefit somewhat. Boys suffer more adverse effects than girls. In addition, parents become gradually more detached from children who have been in day care.
For years, feminists insisted that government had a duty to provide families with day care and never expressed the slightest concern for the effects on children. The 10,000 plus children in the study were part of a government sponsored program in Quebec. Will those who long advocated day care now admit in the aftermath of this and other studies that they were wrong and that they failed children? Don’t hold your breath.
