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Media reports flawed [CA]

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Letter to the Editor
Author: 
Ferns, Carolyn
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Publication Date: 
23 Oct 2005
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Lydia Lovric's article on child care is seriously flawed.

On the website of the Families, Children and Child Care study she refers to, there is a statement reading: "No recommendations about child care are made . . . and we certainly do not advocate that all children in the early years of life must be cared for by full-time mothers, nor indeed that one form of child care is always preferrable to another."

The researchers describe their concern that a presentation by one of the team has been widely misinterpreted by the media.

It appears that it is upon these inaccurate media reports that Ms. Lovric based her own column.

Carolyn Ferns, Toronto

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