About that Day Care study

I'm sure you've heard about this latest report on the effects of day care. Kids end up with better vocabularies... but more behavior problems.

Day care facilities are the saddest places. Once I stopped in at a day care to drop off some quilts and afghans for a local blanket-drive. Lots of kids with runny noses, a small fight breaking out in one corner, the one or two adults doing their best to maintain order. The general feeling was every-kid-for-himself, with a background of institutional false cheer.

And this was one of the major chain day cares, which probably would be considered a "high quality care" facility.

It doesn't surprise me in the least that kids who spend the majority of their lives in the care of low-paid, low-tenure day care workers have some issues as they grow up.