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Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", p223
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A study...indicated that good news about day care
gets far more press coverage than bad news about it. The (cultural)
anthropologist author (David Murray) of this study attributes the phenomenon
to the likelihood that journalists have their own
children in day care and find the good-news stories reassuring.
...This possible incentive to bias extends far beyond journalism. Often the
academic psychologists publishing studies on day care have used day care for
their children.
Likewise, staffers of all stripes on Capitol Hill* use day care regularly...
* Capitol Hill = Center of the United States
government
Category = politics |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", p224 |
It is clear that young children in day
care centers get sick much more often than other kids. Some of the diseases
for which day care seems to put children at greater risk--for example,
spinal meningitis and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)--are fatal.
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Disease |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", p224 |
Because small children put their hands
in their mouths every one to three minutes and because toys get passed
around, high infection rates at day care centers are not surprising.
Category =
Disease |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", p224 |
Day care providers pressure mothers to use
antibiotics, and mothers, stressed by the prospect of more work days,
pressure doctors to prescribe them. Overuse of antibiotics incubates deadly
new germ strains.
...Drug-resistant germs spawned there (in daycare) often reach the wider
community.
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Disease
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Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", p224 |
Among the more serious infections are those of
the middle ear, a malady which can lead to hearing loss and subsequent
social difficulties. The (expensive) placement of surgical tubes to drain
children's ears...is almost seven times more common in day care children.
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Disease |
