Day Care Deception

by Brian C. Robertson

Dr. Laura Schlessinger said it best. Faced with a hostile crowd of day care supporters, she asked them: "OK, if you could come back as an infant, stand up if you would rather be raised by a day care worker, a nanny or a babysitter [rather than your own mother]. Stand up now." No one stood up. "Then why," she asked, "are you going to do this to your children?"

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Robertson unmasks the unholy alliance between the Left and unscrupulous big businessmen, an alliance dedicated to replacing the traditional family with a business-friendly nanny state. He explores how radical feminism, financial pressures, and the elimination of traditional social supports have led to a skyrocketing need for day care - bringing harm to virtually everyone involved except the day care establishment and the politicians who kowtow in Washington to the day care lobby.

Robertson, the author of There's No Place Like Work: How Business, Government, and Our Obsession with Work Have Driven Parents from the Home, here documents how the day care establishment (a multimillion dollar lobby with a vested interest in the expansion of subsidized day care services) goes the extra mile to expand its power and silence its critics. They've torpedoed and twisted reliable studies that show that commercial day care has a negative effect on the emotional, psychological and even physical development of children -- and smeared and vilified researchers who dared to speak honestly about their findings.

Even worse, Robertson explains how now-discredited ideas of social engineering gave the first great impetus to the expansion and acceptance of day care, and why, despite the growing body of evidence that shows that day care is bad for kids and their parents, politicians are afraid to take on the day care establishment. Robertson also gives evidence of how the day care lobby pours more and more money into elections, inducing public officials to provide ever more public subsidies for commercial day care.

How educational and psychiatric "experts" have increasingly marginalized parents and hoodwinked Americans into thinking that raising children is a matter best left to professionals
• Proof: day care hinders children in developing the ability to understand and show love, concern, responsiveness, mercifulness, dignity, respect, and more

• Why increased federal involvement in regulating the day care industry is not effective in raising the quality of care

• The serious flaws of a major and widely reported study that claimed to prove that children are not harmed if their mothers work outside the home

• How the deep disagreements between professional "children's advocates" and the vast majority of parents about day care reflect a deep ideological divide about the very nature of the family

• "Outdated": the stinging rebuke of the CEO of a major corporation to the view that male heads of families should be able to earn enough to enable mothers to raise their preschool children at home

• Why even many "family values" conservatives are oblivious to the implications of the drastic increase in hours devoted to marketplace labor for the average family over the last 30 years

• Debunked: the myth that if government didn't subsidize the day care system, it would take away the freedom of mothers with young children to work

• How the day care establishment, aided and abetted by the liberal media, whitewashed and distorted findings proving that kids in day care were generally more aggressive than those raised at home

• Why a system of purchased day care for children is an inadequate replacement for the parents' role as legal protectors of their children

• How economic concerns have driven much of the day care boom -- and why what's good for the economy is not always what's good for the family

• "Day care is actually better for young children than home care" - and other outright lies of the day care establishment

• Why Republicans as well as Democrats have reasons that they find compelling to disregard the sentiments of parents on child care policy

• "It may be true what you're saying, but we just can't discuss these things in print": how Working Mother, New York Woman and other journals censored negative findings on day care

• How many businesses are knowingly using "family friendly" policies as a way to dissolve family loyalties

• The European model of day care: why American policymakers should avoid at all costs following its example

• How day care advocates have fudged many negative studies by changing the definition of "well-adjusted"

• Why it is so crucial now to restore tax breaks for married parents to their 1950s levels, when about half of all married couples with children were paying essentially no income tax

• The shocking reason why politicians not only are unwilling to take the necessary steps to halt social decay -- divorce, illegitimacy, crime - but may prefer actually to encourage it!

• Concrete measures we must take now to restore acceptance of home care in public policy and popular culture