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Article: Day careless.(dangers of day care to children)(Cover Story)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- January 26, 1998
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Studies increasingly confirm the common-sense intuition that day care poses dangers to small children.
So why is the Clinton Administration pushing it?
Miss Gallagher is an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, and a nationally syndicated columnist. Kathryn Jean Lopez helped with the research on this article.
UNTIL recently, parents typically had a far more negative view of day care than experts did. Not long ago, I stumbled across the following datum in a 1992 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association that may help explain why: In the course of one year of full-time day care, a middle-class white male toddler was ...