CharlotteBronteSaurus - you don't know how the formative experiences people have under the care of others as babies impacts on their mental health as adults.
Nobody here is comparing it to the impact of being severely neglected by a parent.
That doesn't mean that experiences of care outside the home - which may form the bulk of someone's early life experience in infancy - haven't had a damaging impact on them and perhaps contributed to emotional health problems in adulthood.
"Yes, there are occasions when a crying baby might have to wait a few minutes for a cuddle"
And also a case where a baby may have to share his or her care with another two children of the same age who may demand constant carrying and attention. How can one person easily meet the needs of three babies? I've never met anyone who think parenting triplets is a doddle. Most people think it's an extraordinary feat. And yet we expect someone earning £6.50 an hour, with an NVQ level 2, to make a good job of it? And what about those babies in nurseries where the staff turnover is high? There are many nurseries in London like this.
When I was teaching on a CACHE my colleague used to go out doing the nursery visits for the purpose of observing students on placement. She used to come out in a state of depression about the baby rooms in many of the nurseries she visited. Sometimes two or three babies standing up in cots crying at once. Staff trying to stretch themselves between all the babies but obviously (because it's hard to rock two or three crying babies at once) struggling to meet everyone's needs.
And some of the babies spending 50 hours + in an environment where they don't have a secure attachment with ANYONE.
So no - maybe it doesn't result in the same sort of terrible fall-out you get from neglectful families, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter or that it's fair, or that it's harmless or trivial.