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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s odd that you don’t see as what is best for the mother as linked to what is best for the baby. Not that best for mom automatically mean best for baby, but the two are connected.[/quote]

Op here. I agree with you completely but [b]didn’t want to turn this into a usual sahm v wohm debate[/b] with the same tired arguments on savings, career, DH cheating , boredom etc rehashed endlessly[/quote]

Except that this is exactly what will happen because any evidence that this is beneficial to child will be (and has been) stomped out of the conversation by working parents who feel that this threatens their status as "good parents" for making a different choice. So it's really a non-starter.
Do what you want to do and feel confident in your decision, OP.[/quote]

Actually, you don't have evidence that this is beneficial to the child as long as they are well taken care of by someone competent who cares for them, but that's ok. You can make your baseless claims anyway.[/quote]

Actually, multiple peer reviewed studies showing this have been quoted and linked to in this thread.  
But that’s ok.  Continue with the stomping.  [/quote]

It is hard to control for quality of care. You can't intentionally vary that with human subjects -- it would be unethical.

There is some evidence that putting a young child (0-3) in group care all day can raise their stress. That isn't as true for PT care. And it doesn't seem to be born out by individual care. Again, though, we can't realistically compare children who had competent, high quality care from a professional vs. so-so care from a mom... and that's one of the key comparisons here, it seems.

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Oh look, you had to walk back on your previous claim. Funny how now all you're saying is that kids in group care settings have raised stress levels. That isn't what you were saying before. But keep "stomping" around with your baseless claims. They really make you look smart![/quote]

I’m actually a DP, didn’t post before. You do realize this is an anonymous board with a lot of people on it, right? I actually didn’t have my child in a group setting until they were preschool age. But anyway, research studies on this topic are riddled with caveats and the results are notoriously hard to interpret. As I said there are some studies that show that, and there are also some that show no difference. It’s going to depend on a lot of soft factors that can’t be systematically varied for ethical reasons. You don’t need a study to tell you that, though... common sense.[/quote]

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