High-Quality Child Care Again Linked to Fewer Juvenile Arrests

By Linda Jacobson

High-quality child care not only prepares children for school, but can also be an effective crime-fighting strategy, says a new report from leading law-enforcement officials.

"Good educational child care is one of our most powerful weapons against crime, while poor-quality child care multiplies the risk that children will grow up to be a threat to every American family," says the report by Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, a Washington-based anti-crime organization led by police chiefs, sheriffs, police association presidents, prosecutors, and survivors of violent crime.

The group, along with Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, the nationally known Harvard Medical School pediatrician, presented its findings to first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at a White House press...