Why do people think daycare is always worse for children than their parents/home lives?

It seems the people who actually think so forget the rotten conditions that many children are forced to live in. Recent research in the journal _Child Development_ notes that having good daycare early on in one's childhood can help offset the problems that poverty and instability visit on a person later in life: a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_49505.html" rel="nofollow"http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/…/a . I would think this demonstrates an enormous positive _benefit_, not drawback, of daycare. It's also been my firm belief that humans (e.g., children) benefit more from interactions with _more_ and diversified, not fewer, fellow humans (caregivers/peers), not just their parents. Are parents really as leery about putting their kids in daycare as the media would have us think? Thoughts?