If you have not got a High School diploma, the government needs to take over the

More of the Hillary type ideology of it takes a village and the democrat ideology of parents not being capable of being parents.

If you have not got a High School diploma, the government needs to take over the rearing of your kids

That’s the underlying message of the article below. The conclusions below meet conventional Leftist expectations but they conflict with other findings (e.g. here) showing that kindergarten INCREASES aggressive behaviour in children. There are however lots of problems with the study. The effect found was very weak; Reports by the mother — of unknown reliability — again seem to be relied on; The aggregation of care at kindergarten with care by relatives is stupid etc. There would surely be large differences between care given by relatives and care given by teachers. So why did the researchers aggregate them? No mystery. There would have been NO visible effect if they had been treated separately. Popular summary followed by journal abstract below:

Children of mothers with a low education level may be less likely to have behavioural problems if they receive regular care from other adults during pre-school years. In the Archives of General Psychiatry this week, a new study has found that non-maternal care — including centre-based childcare and family arrangements — can reduce physical aggression problems in these children.

Researchers followed 1691 children from age five months to five years. Mothers were interviewed at regular intervals about their children’s behaviour, including frequency of hitting, kicking, biting and bullying. Overall, 17.5 per cent of mothers had not finished high school. Among their children, those who started regular childcare before the age of nine months were 80 per cent less likely to have high levels of aggression compared to those who did not receive such care.

The Role of Maternal Education and Nonmaternal Care Services in the Prevention of Children’s Physical Aggression Problems

Context: Physical violence is an important health problem, and low maternal education is a significant risk for the development of chronic physical aggression (PA). We hypothesized that nonmaternal care (NMC) services could prevent the development of childhood PA problems, depending on the age at which the services are initiated.

Method: Children who followed a trajectory of atypically frequent PA between 17 and 60 months of age among a population sample of 1691 Canadian families were identified. Maternal education and NMC were considered in predicting group membership while controlling for confounding family characteristics.

Results: Children of mothers with low education levels (ie, no high school diploma) were less likely to receive NMC. Those who did receive such care had significantly lower risk of a high PA trajectory. Results from logistic regressions indicated that NMC reduced the risk of high PA, especially when initiated before age 9 months (odds ratio, 0.20; 95% confidence interval, 0.05-0.90). Children of mothers who graduated from high school were less at risk of PA problems, and NMC had no additional protective effect.

Conclusions: Nonmaternal care services to children of mothers with low levels of education could substantially reduce their risk of chronic PA, especially if provided soon after birth. Because children most likely to benefit from NMC services are less likely to receive them, special measures encouraging the use of NMC services among high-risk families are needed.