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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,
p37 |
...when children were enrolled in daycare before
their first birthday, the family made much less difference...
This was something also detected in the Bermuda studies. Early, extensive
daycare may mean that parents have little power to shape their children's
development; including the ability to compensate for damaging experiences of
daycare.
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Damage, Development |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996,
p37 |
The 'Childcare Sewer'
Arrangements where small children play, eat, sleep, and excrete in a
confined space, with a lot of unrelated children, are no exception (to the
capacity of institutions to spread infectious disease). Parents cannot keep
taking time off work, so they may minimise children's illnesses and
send them to daycare to infect others. It is also difficult to maintain
standards of hygiene if children are in nappies (diapers)--particularly
considering how toddlers instinctively mouth objects or suck their hands.
Category =
Disease |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996,
p38 |
Daycare infections have become an important
public health problem in modern America, and a growing number of children
also suffer from parasitic infestations. Physicians refer to the childcare
cloaca, or sewer. The Journal of the American Medical Association remarked
in 1983 that the epidemics of enteritic illnesses they were seeing were
'reminiscent of the pre-sanitation days of the 17th century', and the first
national symposium on infectious disease in childcare centres was held in
1994.
Category =
Disease |
Who Needs Parents?
The Effects of Childcare and Early Education on
Children in Britain and the USA, by Patricia Morgan,
October 1996, p38 |
Since many of the diseases spread in childcare
centres are contagious, even when the child carriers are free of symptoms
themselves, they can be a source of transmission to daycare providers,
parents and siblings, unborn children and the community as a whole.
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