Family Care policy

annrae · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject: Family Care policy

Mr. Lawson: We should adopt a national family policy that includes legislation requiring employers to provide paid parental leave and establishing government-sponsored day care. Such laws would decrease the stress levels of employees who have responsibility for small children. Thus, such laws would lead to happier, better-adjusted families.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion above?
(A) An employee’s high stress level can be a cause of unhappiness and poor adjustment for his or her family.
(B) People who have responsibility for small children and who work outside the home have higher stress levels than those who do not.
(C) The goal of a national family policy is to lower the stress levels of parents.
(D) Any national family policy that is adopted would include legislation requiring employers to provide paid parental leave and establishing government-sponsored day care.
(E) Most children who have been cared for in daycare centers are happy and well adjusted.

OA A, why not E?

camitava · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject:

Annrae, the passage says about the stress level of parents who have to take care of their children. And the Qs is asking for the statement which supports the conclusion. E is not at all supporting the conclusion rather it is going against the conclusion.
I initally picked up B but in B it is making a comparison between parents of newly born children, working outside their home and those who do not. This fact is also not mentioned in the passage at all. The next option I chose is A because it clearly mentions the assumption which supports the conclusion.