Raising Babies: Should under 3s go to nursery?. Steve Biddulph

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      In the early 1980s there was continuing disquiet about infant daycare, but little evidence of harm was reported in studies at that time. The worries were theoretical and, to some degree, based on intuition or folk wisdom about what children need. Yet it made sense to be cautious – half a million years of childrearing was being tampered with, and we didn’t really know the long-term effects. The two sides of the debate became quite passionate: people on both sides wrote angry letters to the newspapers, grandmothers argued with their daughters about putting their precious grandchildren into a nursery. More than a few offered to mind the children instead.