Analysis of The Children Are Fine by Susan Faludi The children are crawling on the floor, screaming and haven't changed their diapers yet because it seems like the nursery is at home a trance looking at the he last episode of the Montel Williams show. One of the workers beats a little girl because she won't stop crying due to her hunger. The other worker sits in her chair drinking Jack Daniels with a little Coke mixed in. All is not well at the Wee World Child Center. But is this the public's impression of our child care system in America? Well, most people would say that this is how only a few daycares are run. But many people continue to say that children who have not been to daycare are more likely to have a more enjoyable life than those who have. Susan Faludi, who often writes about women's issues and is the author of Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, promotes daycare as an improvement in a child's life. In her essay, The Children Are All Right, she argues that children who attend daycare are more sociable, experimental, confident, cooperative, and creative. Faludi's argument is convincing because she provides solid authoritative sources, provides personal experiences of other girls who have been in kindergarten, and refutes the claims of other researchers. Susan Faludi dives right into her argument and hits us with an informative source. Faludi cites Alison Clarke-Stewart, a professor of social ecology at the University of California, Irvine, who found that the social and intellectual development of children in day care was six to nine months ahead of children who stayed at home. This source is reliable because the author of the statement is an expert in the field of social ecology. Therefore this is an opinion source of information because the researcher may be biased towards one side of the argument or the other. This is important to Faludi because the public may question the reliability of the source. Susan Faludi also mentions personal experience in the form of interviews done by Delores Gold and David Andres in paragraph number two. The interviews with the girls not only provide data on the responsibility of childcare, but also serve to give a more personal and intimate feel to the topic. The interviews have a great effect on the reader because they are rooted in reality and were conducted by experienced researchers.