[cath26]

There were disruptive brats prior to the advent of daycare. Do people just post these articles so they and others can bloviate about bad parenting and bratty kids?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

There were disruptive brats prior to the advent of daycare. Do people just post these articles so they and others can bloviate about bad parenting and bratty kids?

Do you believe kids these days are generally as well behaved and respectful as they were in the past?

[Always Right]

There were disruptive brats prior to the advent of daycare. Do people just post these articles so they and others can bloviate about bad parenting and bratty kids?

The purpose of the study was to show the effects of daycare, which it did.

[RavenATB]

"Do people just post these articles so they and others can bloviate about bad parenting and bratty kids?"

I suspect that some people find the subject of parenting an important one. Inasmuch, when research provides us with data that reinforces the fact that day care is a choice that parents make which is not in their child's best interest, people assume that others might like to see the information.