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The Hidden Costs of Childcare
by Patricia Morgan
Family Education Trust © 1992
page 13 |
If positive results from pre-school
projects have been enormously exaggerated, then even worse is the suggestion
that these will result from any form of non-parental care for young
children. Here day nurseries and childminders*
are...represented as educational.
The numbers of distressed or disturbed children with language problems in
the childminding studies of Bridget Bryant and colleagues in Oxfordshire, or
B. Mayell and P. Petrie's in Inner London, do not point to much educational
benefit in the frequently unhappy hours the children spent with what were
often detached, unresponsive and very ignorant women (in home daycare).
*Childminder-British
term referring to a person, ususally a woman, whose job is to take care of
other people's children in her own home.
Category =
Development |
The Hidden Costs of Childcare
by Patricia Morgan
Family Education Trust © 1992
page 15 |
In 1985, Ron Haskins turned to the
subject. While they had received little or no publicity, a total of 10
studies from four different countries (United States, Bermuda, Sweden,
England) now related extended use of day-care to a constellation of
negative and aggressive behaviour, and decreased co-operation, with both
peers and adults.
Attempting to clarify the situation, Haskins compared children who had
attended full time day centres between about three months of age and the
time they entered school at five, with three other groups of similar
background who had less extensive periods of group care. Followed over their
first 2 or 3 years of schooling, the former were more likely to hit, kick
and push; threaten, swear and argue; not to use strategies like
discussion or walking away to deal with difficulties and to be rated by
teachers as having aggressiveness a a serious deficit of social behaviour.
Category =
Behavior |
The Hidden Costs of Childcare
by Patricia Morgan
Family Education Trust © 1992
page 16 |
...in A.F. Osborn and J.E. Milbank's
British study The Effects of Early Education...children who had attended
local authority day nurseries were overwhelmingly:
"...prone to antisocial and aggressive behaviour, were hyperactive and
unable to concentrate on school work, did not get on with others at school,
were clumsy and anxious".
Category = Behavior, Development |
The Hidden Costs of Childcare
by Patricia Morgan
Family Education Trust © 1992
page 18 |
Moreover, the sheer time children spend
at (day care) centres, means that they all too easily lapse into bickering
relationships with each other. They vie for adult attention, compete for
equipment and get on each other's nerves.
Category =
Behavior |
The Hidden Costs of Childcare
by Patricia Morgan
Family Education Trust © 1992
page 19 |
Behaviour problems tend to emerge where
children receive little adult attention and associate closely in peer
groups, just as language development is held back where peer conversation
replaces more important adult-child talk. But, such
drawbacks are vastly accentuated in (day care) facilities which bring
together large numbers of young children of the same age. Human babies do
not tend to come in large litters.
Category = Behavior, Development |
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