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Touching the Third RAIL: The Bizarre World
of Day Care Research,
By Brian Roberson, profam.org, July 2002 |
It's often said among politicians and political
pundits that (an emotionally-charged issue) is the "third rail"*
of American politics; touch it, and you die.
Within academic circles of sociological research,
the same principle applies to evidence that day care has detrimental effects
on children. It's understood that you simply "don't go there" if you
know what's good for you.
...(Jay) Belsky** published his tentative conclusions -- one might more
accurately say suggestions -- in a relatively obscure newsletter under the
headline "Infant Day Care: A Cause for Concern?" with the call for
more research to be done on the matter. As a result of the controversy
that ensued, Belsky won a reputation among his colleagues in the research
community as an ideological opponent of day care, even to the extent of
being shunned by peers at scientific meetings.
...In the intensely ideological world of child care research, it was
enough that he had even raised the question of the possibility of
detrimental effects.
Category = Politics
*Third Rail = a rail through which electric
current is supplied to an electric train locomotive
**Jay Belsky - One of the chief researchers
for the recent child care study sponsored by the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development) |
Touching the Third RAIL: The Bizarre World
of Day Care Research,
By Brian Roberson, profam.org, July 2002 |
As Belsky said at the time,
"There’s gatekeeping going on. The intelligentsia has decided that we don’t
want (parents) to feel bad about their decisions. So let’s give them the
good news over and over again." He concluded that his colleagues in the
research community were, in essence, carefully managing the coverage of the
issue with willing cooperation from a day care-friendly media:...
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