Frankly, I think the article's take on daycare is a load of crap. According to this article, the fact that I have my daughter in daycare while I work means that she will be more aggressive and sickly in the long term. I'm calling bull on that one. She's been in daycare since she was 8 months old, and is now almost 5. Not only is she MUCH healthier than her pampered stay-at-home cousins, but she gets along better with other children, and is infinitely more polite.
Yikes! 8 months old?
How do you do it? When do you see her?
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Despite all that, it's something a working mother is never really able to reconcile. No matter the protests to the contrary.
So you concluded that the article is saying the correlation is 1.0? Where exactly did you get that idea from?
Daycare-raised children generally don't start taking Meth or engage in rape and mayhem until they're a wee bit older than 5.
Why have you had her in day care since eight months old?
You won't start to really notice the effects until she's about 14 or 15. How do I know? Happened to me. Parental abandonment was devastating to me on many levels, and it wasn't until a few years ago that I really understood how much I missed out on - I blamed myself for all the things everyone else seemed to know but I didn't, that I now realize are the artifacts of having effectively zero parental guidance/supervision as a child.
On the bright side, it probably won't be nearly as bad if you and your husband stay together until her adulthood.
In my experience, she is unusual. The daycare kids I know tend to be runny-nosed brats.