Maybe not all the evidence suggests investing at the early...

Maybe not all the evidence suggests investing at the early childhood level makes the greatest return on increasing and strengthen overall socioeconomic stability???

'Despite child care fast-food style (quick, easy and mass produced) being an accepted and expected part of the weekly rhythm in families of pre-schoolers, the evidence is building that too much, too young, too long is a very bad thing indeed.
It can lead to insecurity, anxiety, lousy health and poor academic performance'
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An Australia-first study released early this month that found that once they hit age six or seven, children who had been in “high-dose” child care – more than 20 hours a week – lacked the emotional resilience, physical health and even academic achievement of their counterparts who have spent more time at home with Mum or Dad.
The study undertaken for Dr Chrystal Whiteford’s PhD thesis was the first in Australia to track the childcare experience of infants, and recorded the milestones of 5000 children.
The QUT academic found that childcare kids do better socially in the first year or so of school, but that lead waned and they fell behind in next to no time.
This backs up the revelations of lauded psychologist and author Steve Biddulph in Raising Babies – Should under 3s go to Nursery? In it he analysed a large international body of behavioural and neurobiological research, and found that at least for the first year of life, brains developed best in one-to-one care.
A loving carer was best, but a single, attentive paid carer was still better than putting a child in a “baby room” at a centre.
He went so far as to say that society had fatally neglected the place of caring and that there was no quality care appropriate to very young children.
Studies like these cause a chilling creep: what if we have got it wrong in plonking our babies in child care en masse as part of the economic trend of taking on large mortgages and costly lifestyles?'
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...d-emotional-ills/story-fnihsr9v-1227332030326