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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996,
Introduction, P18 |
The fact remains that for children under
three years of age non-familial child care involves a massive experiment
in raising infants and young children in day care centres
in the absence of any adults who are related or
have a continuing commitment to them.
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Quality |
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996,
Introduction, P18-19 |
Children have given no consent
(to daycare), and this
procedure has no successful precedent in the history of our species. It
involves two types of change.
Firstly, by withdrawing the mother and extended family experiences for most
of the child's waking hours, it subtracts many ingredients which have been
part of the normal human heritage or continuum.
Secondly, it adds the day care experience, which means the child is
continuously and unavoidably exposed to other infants and young children who
are also undergoing similar deprivations.
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Quality |
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996,
Introduction, P19 (also on P87) |
(Dr Jay Belsky wrote in 1992) "Consider the fact,
then, that it is infant day care that has been associated with attachment
insecurity, aggression, and noncompliance; that more and more children are
beginning nonparental care in their first year of life; that it is likely to
be poor quality of care that is most problematic; and it is care of limited
quality that is probably widely relied on by families...
On the basis of this developmental and social ecology of daycare in America,
I conclude that we have a nation at risk".
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996,
Introduction, P19-20 |
(In 1995 a major report concluded) most child
care is mediocre in quality, sufficiently poor to interfere with children's
emotional and intellectual development. Market forces constrain the cost of
child care and at the same time depress the quality of care provided to
children...
Our results indicate that care for infants and toddlers may be even lower
quality than previously thought".
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Quality |
