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Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996
p17, Introduction
to Section A, |
Childcare centres can spread infectious and
parasitic diseases, as large numbers of children are kept for long periods
in confined areas.
Physicians in America refer to the childcare cloaca, or sewer.
Research findings on the effects of childcare on children have been
distorted as the issue has become politicised. However a careful examination
of research which has been carried out, mainly in the USA and Britain,
reveals an increased risk of low levels of language and social skills, poor
academic performance, and behavioural problems, in childcare children.
Category
= Disease |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996
p17, Introduction
to Section A, |
Aggression in children is one of the most serious
negative correlations with childcare. Daycare is sold to parents as a means
of teaching their children social skills, but it may have the reverse
effect.
Category
= Behavior |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996,
p32-33 |
In the most extensive study of relationships in
American daycare, it was observed how caregivers are often quite narrow in
their dealings with infants: their level of stimulation was low and lacking
in variety, with little play with their charges. Talk between caregivers and
individual children in centres often tends to be a simple 'control'
variety...
Even with Swedish 'quality care', adults at home converse more with children
than those in daycare centres.
These findings about the responsiveness of parents and caregivers are
duplicated for Britain. At three years old, in the Thomas Coram Research
Unit (TCRU) study:
...there were significant differences between the childcare groups, with
mothers and relatives showing higher levels of affection toward the study
child than childminders* who were in turn more affectionate than nursery
(daycare) workers.
*Childminder- British term referring to
a person, usually a woman, whose job is to take care of other people's
children in her own home.
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Quality |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996,
p35 |
It is not uncommon to find childminders
who refuse to go on taking a child once he has become mobile...
One (instructor) confided to me her misgivings about the numbers (of
childminders) who seemed only to want 'deaf and dumb paraplegics who slept
most of the time.'
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