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Breeding Little Monsters: How Day Care
is Exposing America's children to Unnatural Plagues
by Bryce Christensen, The
Family in America on-line edition, www.profam.org, June 2002
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Pediatricians and epidemiologists have understood
for some time that taking young children out of maternal care in their own
homes and putting them into professional care in a day care center exposes
them to a considerably elevated risk of contracting many diseases, including
some very serious ones.
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Breeding Little Monsters: How Day Care
is Exposing America's children to Unnatural Plagues
by Bryce Christensen,
www.profam.org, June 2002 |
For one particular childhood respiratory
disease--pneumococcal disease--the relative risk of infection
runs an astounding
36 times higher
among children under two in day care centers than it does among
similar-age children cared for at home.
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Breeding Little Monsters: How Day Care
is Exposing America's children to Unnatural Plagues
by Bryce Christensen,
www.profam.org, June 2002 |
Day care placement of young children has a
similarly dramatic effect on risk for a number of other diseases, also. Researches report that the incidence of
Hemophilus influenza type B (HiB)
(commonly considered a type of flu) runs over twelve times higher
among
children in day care than among children cared for at home.
Similarly, the infection rate for giardiasis
(a type of diarrhea) is a remarkable fifteen to
twenty times higher than it is among children cared for at home.
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Breeding Little Monsters: How Day Care
is Exposing America's children to Unnatural Plagues
by Bryce Christensen,
www.profam.org, June 2002 |
Immeasurably worse than hepatitis A, the tragedy
of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has occurred in day care settings at
a rate which experts regard as "disproportionately high"...
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