In the end, the whole child care debate may be irrelevant to how children turn out. Even in the short term, the National Institutes of Health has found that regardless of how much child care a child receives, its effects are dwarfed by the influence of family. Even if it could be proven that child care is good for most children, every child has unique needs. The best solution to the day care debate is to allow parents to make the decisions that require keeping the unique needs of each child in mind. The facts show that the child care market per se is healthy.
Child care is available, affordable, and of good quality.
And not one of my colleagues believed that their election turned on it for a moment. There wasn't a parents' movement. What appears to be driving this movement is an assumption that parents can't be trusted to protect their children. In fact, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton suggests that parents don't know what constitutes quality child care. I think any parent has the perfect right to be insulted by that attitude.