Quality Child Care Linked to Better Grades a Decade Later

sssoooo, parents raising thier child instead of child care is no longer considered for study as a comparison.

"...the results only show an association, and not a direct cause-effect link."

There are many known and some still unknown factors involved in influencing the personality, IQ, and character of a child. Why do you suppose that siblings, raised by the same parents, can be wildly different from one another.

This is just another poor attempt at reporting. It would seem the writer's headline is condemning day care, (in my eyes a media attention getter) but once read the story 'explains' that that is not the case.