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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,
manslife.com |
DAY CARE IS A SELF-JUSTIFYING INDUSTRY
Sandra Scarr, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at the
University of Virginia…is regarded as a leading researcher in the field.
Throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, she published studies and magazine articles
showing essentially the same results: Even average-quality child care has
very small negative effects, if any. Nor have her views (about daycare)
wavered in the face of the considerable research to the contrary since then.
Scarr herself has been a major player in the $36 billion day-care
industry. She served on the board of directors of KinderCare Learning
Centers, Inc., a nationwide chain of day-care franchises then based in
Montgomery, Alabama, and became chairman of the board in 1994; a year later
she was installed as CEO, and she then left the
University
of Virginia. The studies continued, though. A 1998 article she wrote for the
APA’s journal American Psychologist featured a photo of Scarr provided by
KinderCare.
She says that, with the exception of Belsky, no one has ever challenged
her dual role as researcher/executive
(which might be perceived as an ethical conflict of interest).
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The Invention of Day Care
By Tom Zoellner,
manslife.com, September 1999 |
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE COUNTS
A business as big as the day-care industry exerts a lot of influence. But so
do personal factors. For example, it goes all but unnoticed that most of the
stories about day care in the papers, in women’s magazines, and on TV
seem to be written by working women who are reporting, for the most
part, on studies conducted by women very much like themselves. Presumably
many of
these women have children, and presumably a great many of these are in some
form of day care. Despite their routine claims to objectivity, it may not be
reasonable or fair to expect researchers and writers to report accurately on
a subject so many of them care so deeply about.
An easy analogy:
What if all the research and reporting on smoking were conducted exclusively
by smokers?
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