Daycare bad
Most
reasonable thinking adults already know what research
is proving. Take the children away from parental teaching,
guidance and control and create a bad "behaviored"
child.
This
does not negate the fact that many parents have decided
they must use daycare so they can work to pay a large
mortgage or have the frills of life. But the children
are the victims all too often.
It
seems that we have devalued children so extensively
that we can daycare them out, we abort them, we fail
to protect them from predators and we discard them ,
because they are just children. Think family and family
time is important ; seems so.
See
the studies:
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 For
years, stay-at-home parents have been trivialized by
feminists who wrongly believe that a mother or father's
care is replaceable. However, a new study by the National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development at NIH
proves the feminist ideology wrong. The most expansive
research of its kind, the Study of Early Child Care
and Youth Development found that putting a child in
day care for a year or more increases the chances that
the child will become disruptive in class--a trend that
persists through the sixth grade. Perhaps most telling
is the fact that these tendencies were evident despite
the child's sex, family income, and even the quality
of the day care center in question.
The
news will be particularly disappointing to day care
advocates who have insisted that any negative effects
are entirely contingent, on the "quality"
of the care. In the U.S., experts estimate that 2.3
million kids under the age of 5 are in day care, while
4.8 million are in the care of a relative or nanny,
and 3.3 million are at home with their parents. Despite
the large number of stay-at-home parents, the government
is often lopsided in its support of families who choose
out-of-the-home care for their kids.
Research
shows that most parents would prefer to tend for their
kids themselves. If that's the case, why do government
policies undercut parental choice and care? There is
no substitute for the contributions that at-home parents
make to the development of their children, often at
financial sacrifice. In light of the obvious benefits
to kids, we urge Congress to pass Sen. Sam Brownback
(R-Kans.) and Rep. Lee Terry's (R-Nebr.) Parents' Tax
Relief Act. Through the bill's equalized tax treatment
of stay-at-home parents, families would have the freedom
to care for their own children.
More:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1602834,00.html
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