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"A Schoolhouse Built by Hobbes" by Bryce Christensen,
page 113-115, Family Policy Review,
Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 2003 (The Child-Care 'Crisis' and Its Remedies)
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Among the millions of young parents who daily leave their young children in
day care, many quell pangs of parental guilt with the thought that such
"professional" care will foster their children's cognitive development and
thus give their children an educational advantage...
However...day-care researchers--and pliant journalists--carefully control
what parents hear about day care and what they do not.
And parents would be deeply distressed to learn just how much day-care
education impairs their
children's emotional development and their
ability
to love, give, and share.
(Also, the) putative* intellectual advantages
of day care look particularly dubious...
Category = Development, Politics
*commonly accepted or supposed |
"A Schoolhouse Built by Hobbes" by Bryce Christensen,
page 116-117, Family Policy Review,
Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 2003 (The Child-Care 'Crisis' and Its Remedies)
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The studies implicating day care...in problematic behavior in children are
by no means obscure: They are familiar to all experts in the field of child
development research. But there are probably significantly fewer such
studies in print than there should be. Child psychologist Jay Belsky of
the University of London has written of how day-care research that turns up
"evidence of [day-care] group differences that prove to be
unpopular" may
well be "withheld from publication." This bias is remarkably pervasive.
Professional journals collaborate with the mass media to keep the
public
image of day care positive.
Because of this vigilant gatekeeping, research showing that day care makes
children more likely to hit, kick, and swear
has received relatively little
play.
Category = Behavior, Politics |
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"A Schoolhouse Built by Hobbes" by Bryce Christensen,
page 119, Family Policy Review,
Volume 1, Number 2, Fall 2003 (The Child-Care 'Crisis' and Its Remedies)
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...some day-care defenders adopt a riskier and more revealing strategy in their
efforts at defending day care: that of reinterpreting the findings so as to
make children's troublesome behavior seem positively virtuous.
Time (magazine) suggested that the children day-care researchers
labeled "aggressive" might better be labeled "spunky and independent"...
Category = Behavior, Politics |
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