The Invention of Day Care
How “researchers” and
reporters, shrinks and bureaucrats have used their own personal choices and
lots of wishful thinking to create the sad myth of “good” day care. By
Tom Zoellner, Reprinted from Men's Health Magazine, September 1999
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So if you were a parent with a child in day care, the … study (exonerating
daycare by Elizabeth Harvey, a psychologist at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst) was exactly what you wanted to hear.
On the other hand, if you’re (a parent) wrestling with the pros and cons of day
care--one of the biggest decisions you’ll ever make--the Harvey study can
also be seen as a textbook case of how vital information on the subject is
often tainted and misrepresented.
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The Invention of Day Care
By Tom Zoellner,
manslife.com, September 1999 |
…here’s what almost all the journalists neglected to include:
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For its sample, Harvey’s study used a huge database that had nothing to do
with day care specifically.
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Harvey never talked to a mother in connection with her study.
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Harvey never talked to a child in connection with her study.
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Harvey never set foot in a day-care center in connection with her study.
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