On Dec 5, 3:55 am, Sarah Vaughan wrote:
Beliavsky wrote:
On Dec 4, 4:38 pm, Banty wrote:

Do wring said relative's neck.

Yes, dissent from progressive orthodoxy must be silenced! Research on
problems with day care should be ignored!

I think the issue is not so much that people of a different opinion
should be silenced or ignored, as that they should have the tact not to
start telling someone that they *should* do things *this* way when they
don't know the whole story of the individual in question or why that
individual might be in a situation that means that that isn't a good option.

That standard should apply both to people who tell the OP to send to
her daughter to day care and to those who advise against it. But a
blanket statement "Your daughter will do just fine", made by someone
who knows neither the child or the day care center, raises no hackles,
except from me. My questioning such a blanket statement, without
telling what the OP what she should do, does upset people. There is a
double standard when it comes to discussing the merits of day care,
both in this group and the media in general. Some articles and books
discussing bias in the latter are

Fear and Loathing at the Day-Care Center
Kay S. Hymowitz
City Journal, Summer 2001
http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_..._loathing.html

Media, Academia Ignore Day Care's Downsides
By Sean Grindlay
November 7, 2003
http://www.aim.org/briefing/A103_0_5_0_C/

Day Care Deception: What the Child Care Establishment Isn't Telling Us
By Brian C. Robertson
Encounter Books
http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/daycaredeception/