An important question to consider is whether the cost of not putting the infant in day-care could prove less than the consequence of doing so in the future. It is also worth pondering the consequences of a growing amount of children entering day-care at an increasingly early age and spending more and more time in day-care. Although the effects may be small, when viewed from a public health perspective, a relatively low risk can multiply in importance due to wide prevalence and lead to broad-scale consequences (Jeffrey, 1989).
[Tutor's comment: 69% Nice essay full of studies and data and very restrained on pointification (hard to do in this field!) One thing you could perhaps have done was discuss the conceptual issues a little more - what are the confounds in this kind of research, how successfully have these been overcome etc.
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