> It can also give permission for unwanted behavior. Cf. the Haifa study, where the rate of late pickups increased when daycares added a fine. One explanation i

> It can also give permission for unwanted behavior. Cf. the Haifa study, where the rate of late pickups increased when daycares added a fine. One explanation is the fine turned a complex moral obligation into an ordinary financial transaction. You know what they say: a fine makes something legal for an amount of money. And for daycares, I think a lot of parents saw it just like that: a cheap way to keep the kid away from them for longer.