Introduction
Kalson’s article “Making an aggressive case for day care’s benefits” makes a deep analysis on the issue of child daycare program; child daycare is a concept of caring for young children during the day when the parent is away from home for various reasons; in most cases, this service is performed by people who are not part of the immediate family (Eberts, 2007). According to this article, when children are under day child care for many hours every week, most of them become very aggressive and the recommendation is that these children should get medical attention. However, the recommendations and the report findings are an overstatement and can not be applied especially with the current economical crisis across the globe.
Summary of the article
This article focuses its argument based on the research reports that have been released by several researchers regarding the issue of child daycare. One of the research report by Professor Jay Belsky a lecturer at London University argues that children who are under child care for more than 30 hours a week are observed to have aggressive behavior as compared to those children who are under child daycare for few hours and therefore his recommendation is that these children should be referred for medical help to overcome this problem (Kalson, 2011).
However, according to the author of this article, this report is nothing but an exaggeration of the facts and should not be regarded with a lot of concern.
Indeed, this finding by Professor Jay Belsky is not consistent with the other reports which have been given out on the same topic. The response on this matter by Susan Campbell a psychologist and a chief researcher at the Pitt institute and Celia Brownell also a researcher at Pitt institute argues that the findings by Professor Jay really do show that children who are under more than 30 hours of daycare every week are actually aggressive.
However, according to Campbell, the proposals is an overstatement since the children’s behavior is a reflection which is just well within the normality and therefore these children can not be subjected to medical care because “there is no cause for alarm” (Kalson, 2011).
Discussion
Based on the argument and recommendations presented by Professor Jay, it seems that mothers should be more close to their small children in order to reduce the issue of child daycare, however, the facts presented by Susan Campbell argue that the parents of any child should not shy away from taking their children to the child daycare program since, on the other hand, the concept of child daycare is reasonably more beneficial to children as opposed to its negative attributes (Kalson, 2011).
Children who are regularly on the program of daycare are said to get better training, good language development, and most importantly their cognitive level is developed faster equipping them with skills ready to join schools (Kalson, 2011).
In addition to this, the program of child daycare facilitates economical progress since it offers the parent with an opportunity to work especially for those parents who are already employed; employed mothers will always have an alternative not to decline their jobs when they deliver and for this reason, the day child care program should be more encouraged across the globe. Even though the warning that more than 30 hours of daycare a week can make the children be more aggressive should not be assumed but rather this can be taken as a challenge by employers to offer flexible working hours for mothers especially within the first year after birth (Kalson, 2011).
Furthermore, the recommendation by Professor Jay can not be much emphasized because its application in the society would mean that, most working mothers especially those with children below the age of six will have to stay at home. Based on the report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the ratio of women with young children working in the US contributes to about seven percent of the working population which is a factor that can not be assumed (Kalson, 2011).
Although it could not “collapse the economy”, the consequences would definitely shake the national economy or worse still it could also cause economic growth to slow down (Kalson, 2011). Besides, this would also put a country’s labor force into a major crisis especially considering that there are many fields that are dominated by women such as nursing, teaching among other departments.
Conclusion
The opinion is that child daycare programs should be encouraged since society really needs these services. On the other hand, it’s important to consider the implications related to long hours of child daycare because this factor can not be assumed either. The proper campaign should be done to enlighten the parents or guardians about the actual implications which may arise as a result of a long exposure of young children to the child care program.
Reference
Eberts, M. (2007) Careers in Child Care. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional.
Kalson, S. (2011). Making an aggressive case for daycare’s benefits. Web.