Day Care Deception - What the Child Care Establishment Isn't Telling Us (Hardcover)

Over the last generation, parents have felt increasingly intimidated by child care 'experts' and surrendered their role as the primary educators of their children. Brian Robertson believes that this development has proved detrimental to parents and children alike. Theories of development, often coloured by ideological positions on the family and its role in society, should take a back seat to the instinctive understanding parents have about what rearing children requires. Parenting is for parents, he believes, not for child development experts and especially not for day care 'professionals'. Robertson shows how the establishment works to expand its power and silence its critics. Despite the fact that most reliable studies show that commercial day care has a negative effect on the emotional, psychological and even physical development of children, for instance, researchers calling attention to the correlation between aggression among children and too much non-maternal care have seen their work vilified. bolster the case for day care on the grounds that day care equals 'school' and parents' desire to care for their children selfishly deprives them of a 'head start'. The story of day care in America is a complex and daunting one and Brian Robertson has told it with intelligence and insight. Day Care Deception is a brave and thoughtful book about contentious debate whose outcome will have profound consequences for our children and our social future.