The central issue of daycare is often framed in a way that pits working moms against stay-at-home moms, and feminists against traditional families. But the real conflict, Brian C. Robertson shows in this carefully researched book, is between all parents and the burgeoning day care establishment itself—a multimillion dollar lobby with a vested interest in the expansion of subsidized day care services.

Robertson shows how this establishment works to expand its power and silence its critics. Despite the fact that most reliable studies show that commercial day care has a negative effect on the emotional, psychological and even physical development of children, for instance, researchers calling attention to the correlation between aggression among children and too much non-maternal care have seen their work vilified. Studies making the case for parental care—because of the importance particularly of a mother's attention in early childhood development—have been twisted to bolster the case for day care on the grounds that day care equals "school" and parental care deprives the child of that head start.

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