Non-Maternal Childcare Produces Less Violent Children of Low-Education Mothers

I’m always suspicious of studies that attribute socioeconomic or education level in cause and effect relationships. Therefore, I'm wary of the study results presented in Science Digest concerning University of Montreal researchers who concluded that “non-maternal care services to children of mothers with low levels of education could substantially reduce their risk of chronic physical aggression” if services begins before the children reach nine months. Many readers may conclude that higher educated mothers produce children who aren't physically aggressive even the study “didn’t go there.” What about children involved in school shootings, mean girls groups, and even that many suicide bombers are from middle-class families, presumably with parents of higher education?

I support very young children receiving childcare services, particularly to help low-education working mothers. However, I don’t like the attempt to link low-education mothers with violent children no more than linking high-level educated mothers to less violent children.

The art piece is from my collection. I purchased it in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1993.