Nanny dearest.

AuthorKoteskey, Tyler
PositionHillary Clinton, 'It Takes a Village' - Follow-Up

It's been 20 years since then-First Lady Hillary Clinton published her best-selling book on child development, ItTakes A Village. In the April 1996 reason, cognitive scientist Gwen J. Broude noted the contradictions between Clinton's vision of child rearing and the tightly knit communities her book's title referenced. "The kinds of villages to which the proverb refers are smalt, homogeneous, and kin-based," she wrote. "They are little platoons. People know each other, interact with each other on a day-to-day basis, and form voluntary associations in which I watch your child and you watch mine. By contrast...the village that Hillary Clinton has in mind is Uncle Sam."

In 2016, Clinton's policy vision still moves the responsibility for child welfare from organic networks to government programs. But now she speaks as the Democrats' presidential nominee. In June 2015, she called for universal preschool access. In May 2016, she proposed capping daycare provider expenses at 10 percent of a family's income. She has also advocated doubling our investment in the government-run school-readiness program Head Start. In her book as well as on her2016 campaign website, Clinton touts her "evidence-based" approach, implyingthat those who would rather not have government helping rear children from cradle to grave aren't only wrong, but anti-science.

But the data contradict the former secretary of...

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