Day Care, Aggression: What if...

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Recent study linking day care with aggressive behavior in kindergarteners http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010419/ts/daycare010419_1.html leads to this hypothetical:

What if a further study shows a strong link between day care and (for lack of a better term) Columbine Syndrome: that there’s a strong correlation between the amount of time a child spends with their parent(s) and the tendency to go psycho and start randomly shooting classmates; say, for discussion purposes, that a child who spends the ages from 1-5 in day care, and/or in after-school daycare, is 10x more likely to have sociopathic tendencies.

What societal impact would this have? Would working parents start heading home in droves? Would there be a massive return to the '50s? If so, what impact would this have on the US economy? Would the divorce rate plummet, as parents stay together “for the sake of the kids”? Or would working parents shrug and say “I’ll take that chance…”?

Discuss amongst yourselves.

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Hey! Let’s hear your views, first.

Since you presented the idea that a new study (which has never been undertaken) would hypothetically provide the linkage between day care and behavior that the current study clearly did not, I will throw out that
Nothing would change.

There are far too many societal pressures that have created the current situation of child rearing, and no news that some kid somewhere might shoot someone some day is going to reverse those pressures.