Home-alone America: signs of pain among under-parented children.(Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes)(Book Review)

Mary Eberstadt, author of Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes, argues that while life is better today for most adults, many children are worse off, due to a decline in parental devotion. Here, from a recent interview by TAE editor Karlyn Bowman, Eberstadt summarizes her arguments in her own words:

"Quite apart from the long-term behavioral consequences of day care, quite apart from what it is or isn't doing to children's cognitive abilities, there is the issue of what day care is doing emotionally to that baby or toddler when he is at his most unknowing and vulnerable. We avoid that question because it ...