Washington, D.C.
Children who spend more than a year in day care are more likely to have behavioral problems in school, a long-running federal study reported this week. The Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development has followed 1,300 children since 1991. Before reaching school age, some stayed at home with a parent, some were cared for by a nanny, and others attended day-care centers. The study found that the children from day care were slightly more likely to disrupt class and bully classmates than the other children. Some critics questioned the methodology used in the study, which touched off a debate over the impact on children of the increase in families with two working parents.
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