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 From: billnech@msn.com 
  
 "LeRoy_Brown"  wrote in message 
 news:5362efc9.0308092057.421a2816@posting.google.com... 
 > A recent comprehensive study has determined that children who spend their 
 > early years in day care will turn out to be discipline problems later on. 
  
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 So what was this study?  How was it conducted?  Who financed it?  Was it 
 pear reviewed? 
  
 There are many, many different types of day care and reasons for day care. 
 Also many ways to interpret such results.  Consider, for instance, that we 
 have more single mothers than ever before and that most of them work. 
 Consider also that families don't typically live in the same communities for 
 several generations.  So there are many offspring of single moms in the 
 cheapest day care they can find.  Those families have a tough time all 
 around.  That tough time cannot be blamed on day care. 
  
 Consider my case:  my wife and I are both professionals.  We could have 
 afforded to live on my salary and have my wife stay home with the kids.  But 
 her mental health depended on her continued working.  We shopped and found a 
 quality day care with competent staff.  We also moved the kids from a day 
 care that didn't meet our expectations.  The day care we settled on had a 
 wall thought out program, lots of supervision, and our kids entered school 
 ready to learn.  Now in their pre-teen years, our kids are grounded, well 
 disciplined, and doing great in school.  They also have two caring parents 
 at home and my wife has arranged her work schedule so that she can be home 
 after school. 
  
 How kids do is more a matter of family life than daycare. 
  
 Also the comment about taxes:  well how about what families seem to need 
 that they didn't need a generation ago.  My parents never had two cars. 
 More people lived in cities with mass transit.  We never had more than one 
 TV (and don't now either).  People have more toys and bigger houses than 
 ever before...this in spite of suggestions of higher tax burdens.  People 
 have been crying about taxes for generations.  So please show your numbers. 
  
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