The new findings come as the latest installment in the nation's most comprehensive study of the effects of child care. The work is being done by 34 premiere researchers across the United States. For many mothers, that would mean torpedoing a career. For others, it would mean lowering a family's standard of living. There is no one right answer.
Parents gulp hard and make the best choice their circumstances allow.
Take a deep breath. Consider what the study did and didn't say. It did not say that the aggression seen in day-care children was abnormal. It was just higher on the scale of normal human aggression. A day-care child, for instance, might make assertive demands about wanting a turn on the swing instead of waiting silently for the seat to clear.