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Quotes from books about
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Facing the Effects of Mother's Absence,
Home by Choice
by Brenda Hunter, Ph.d, ©1991
page 43 |
Jonathon is an angry, troubled little boy.
During his first year of life, Jonathon (was placed in) a neighborhood day
care center. Jonathon tried to form attachments to the various child
care providers, but no sooner had he forged a bond, than his caretaker left
for a better job. After a while Jonathon didn't seem to care about
forming ties at the center; rather he became the preschool bully, snatching
toys from other children, hitting and kicking peers and teachers on
occasion.
Category = Behavior |
Facing the Effects of Mother's Absence,
Home by Choice,
by Brenda Hunter, Ph.d, ©1991
page 62 |
Just what does key infant day care research show?
Evidence since 1980 indicates that when a baby is placed in substitute care,
even good quality care...for twenty or more hours per week during his first
year of life, he is at risk psychologically.
Category = Behavior |
Facing the Effects of Mother's Absence,
Home by Choice,
by Brenda Hunter, Ph.d, ©1991
page 64 |
Studies such as the one conducted by J.C. Schwarz
and his colleagues have shown that older children who entered day care
before they were twelve months old are more physically and verbally abusive
toward adults, less cooperative with grownups, and less tolerant of
frustration than their counterparts who had no prior day care experience.
Category = Behavior |
Facing the Effects of Mother's Absence,
Home by Choice,
by Brenda Hunter, Ph.d, ©1991
page 66 |
Wendy Dreskin, who along with her husband,
William, founded and directed a high quality day care center in San
Francisco, became so concerned about the stressful effects of day care on
the children that she and her husband closed their center. Dreskin
felt the children missed their parents and had to deal with a day that was
far "too long for them." The long day pushed some of the children,
hungry for parental attention, over the edge. Dreskin says of one
child: "One day when another little girl was sitting in a teacher's
lap I heard Alison cry, 'I want teacher's lap.' When the other child
did not move, Alison attacked her, raking her nails across the child's face.
She reminded me of a starving urchin fighting for a
scrap of bread."
Category = Behavior, Caregiver |
Facing the Effects of Mother's Absence,
Home by Choice,
by Brenda Hunter, Ph.d, ©1991
page 66 |
Dreskin explodes the myth that children stop
crying the minute parents leave. She says this is often what directors
tell the day care workers to say to make parents feel better.
Category = Behavior,
Caregiver |
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