NEW YORK/CMNN - A new study finds the obvious, that there is a direct correlations between the amount of time that kids spend in day care and aggressive or defiant behavior.

Researchers found that a child who spends 30 hours per week in day care is three times as likely to exhibit aggressive, disobedient behavior than those only spending ten hours per week in the same facilities. Practical experience suggests that there might have been an even greater disparity if the group were compared with children who were raised at home.

This 10-year research project was financed by a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is reportedly one of the largest studies of its kind.

According to the NIH's website the NIH is "one of eight health agencies of the Public Health Services which, in turn, is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Comprised of 27 separate components, mainly Institutes and Centers, NIH has 75 buildings on more than 300 acres in Bethesda, MD. From a total of about $300 in 1887, the NIH budget has grown to" astronomical proportions of "more than $20.3 billion in 2001." (Which comes out to $580.00 per tax paying family).

Researchers and child-care experts insisted that this study should not cause "parents to overreact". They fear that there might be a push back to homecare for children where they would be nurtured by one or both of their parents. These experts insist that a better option would be to increase taxes to fund programs that would "improve" day care.

Faith Wohl, president of the New York-based Child Care Action Campaign (CCAC)opined, "This (study) will tap right into parents' guilt - it will feed the appetite of those who think child care is a bad idea in the first place." The CCAC mission statement insists on the contradictory goals of "universal prekindergarten" and "public policies that support families" leaving little room for families to support themselves without Ms. Wohl's or the government's involvement.

Like many advocacy groups the CCAC does not do anything directly for the goals that they have set out. As they say in their own material, "We do not provide direct services to children, nor are we child care providers". Instead their mission is to "call attention" to the problems and let others solve them.

Certain experts quoted in the AP insist that daycare is a necessity because two parents are needed to work. However, finance experts have found that many of the programs funded by the government have created a tax burden on the individual that climbs every year. They point out that the solution to the day care dilemma may not be "throwing good money after bad", but giving more money to the tax payer to spend on their own children and perhaps avoid the necessity of the two wage earner family.