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The dangers of day care,
Reagan Information Exchange, 2000 |
Haifa University in Israel:
...if (the mother) places her child in group daycare,...the group care
experience in itself proved negative for these infants regarding attachment
security.
Category =
Behavior |
Mass Media Bunk
by Robert Todd Carroll
features news stories or articles in the mass media that
provide false, misleading or deceptive information regarding scientific
matters...30-Apr-00
rathinker.co.kr |
Upon reading "Good day care prevents crime later
in life, study says" by Anjetta McQueen of the Associated press certain
things stand out.
...However, one looks in vain for that proof in the article. I am sure
many readers wondered if (they) weren't guilty of post hoc reasoning*
and wishful thinking, or were just diddling with statistics to
deceive the government into giving them more money.
* Post hoc reasoning = The mistaken notion
that simply because one thing happens after another, the first event was a
cause of that event.
Category =
Politics |
Mass Media Bunk
by Robert Todd Carroll
A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions
30-Apr-00
SkepDic.com |
The critical reader would know also that
without knowing the details of the studies referred to in the article ("Good
day care prevents crime later in life, study says" by Anjetta McQueen),
one can't know whether the conclusions drawn by the authors of the report
are justified. How were the studies designed and conducted? How were the
participants selected? How were key terms such as "high quality day care"
defined? How many participants were in the study? What methods were used to
follow-up on behaviors in long-term studies? What was the margin of sampling
error in each study? Such details are necessary, otherwise it is impossible
to make a reasonable evaluation of the studies and the conclusions drawn by
others. I know it may shock some people, but statistics have been abused by
many with an axe to grind or a program to fund. None of this essential
information was provided in the article.
Category =
Politics |
Mass Media Bunk
by Robert Todd Carroll
A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions
30-Apr-00
SkepDic.com |
Upon reading this article ("Good
day care prevents crime later in life, study says" by Anjetta McQueen),
some might think that...the real reason children who don't get quality day
care grow up to commit more crimes is not because they did not attend a high
quality day-care center, but because of a number of other factors that
differentiate the poor. |
A Conspiracy of Silence: Does Daycare
Harm Kids?
By Charles W. Colson, 10-May-00
www.worthyopinions.com/breakpoint/
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Robertson notes that children raised in daycare
"exhibit some of the same debilitating emotional . . . cognitive, and even
physical problems" displayed by orphans.
Now, consider: We've known for nearly 60 years that
children are much better off at home than within the walls of even the
best-run daycare. So why are people still trying to prove that daycare is
just as good or even better than maternal care?
Category = Behavior, Development, Quality |
Daycare Rules Promote Antibiotic Overuse
By: Danielle Dardashti, (posted sometime after May 2000)
www.kids-md.com/Toddler/Newsbyte/dycrmeds.shtml
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…many daycares .. take it a step further. Many
centers now dictate to parents that their sick child needs to be on
antibiotics before they can return to their daycare class.
Dr. Scott Dowell, an epidemiologist for the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention says he has seen the trend increase.
"We’ve been hearing for years from parents saying
one of the reasons we give antibiotics to our children, even though we know
it’s a cold and it’s not needed is because the daycare asks us to bring them
back only after they have an antibiotic. And
what you’re gonna end up with at the end of all that is a daycare filled
with children infected with resistant bacteria."
Category = Disease |
Gateway to Joy, Studies on the Home,
www.backtothebible.org,
01-May-00 |
Gayle Sommers said:
Robert Coles…(who) teaches at Harvard…he is probably the outstanding
child psychiatrist in the country.
What he said in this essay was: "What has happened to us? What has happened
to us that we think we could--without any harm coming to our children--hand
them over to people in day care centers and let them be raised by someone
else?
Category =
Quality |
