What’s Wrong with Day Care: Freeing Parents to Raise Their Own Children Book Report

What’s Wrong with Day Care: Freeing Parents to Raise Their Own Children is a book published in 2001 by Columbia Press and is written by Charles Siegel, who is most noted for being the founder of the Preservation Institute. The author’s background is the first thing I looked at when I was deciding whether or not to use the source. I found that he is the author of The Preservationist Manifesto and of policy studies on economic growth, child care, health insurance reform, mental health care, and other issues. He believes that his most important qualification for writing the book is that he is a former “househusband“: he stayed home to take care for his son for five years while his wife worked (Siegel 151).
The book has a clear bias, which is even obvious in the title. The author’s economic studies background tends to influence the idea of the book, steering it towards the idea of why and how child care should be reformed in our country. My topic, which has nothing to do w...