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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996,
Introduction, P20 |
In a meta-analysis of the relevant research from
all countries...Violato and Russell...examined results of (studies involving
22,072 children).
The results indicated that there was significant and robust evidence of
negative (i.e. undesirable) outcomes associated with non-maternal care in
socio-emotional outcomes, behavioural outcomes, and in attachment to mother.
No support was found for the belief that high
quality day care is an acceptable substitute for parental care.
These and other findings in their study give no grounds for complacency in
countries beyond the United States.
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996,
Introduction, P21 |
The discussion here is mostly focused on the
non-parental and non-familial care of infants and young children under two
and a half to three years of age in institutional long day care. Part-time
child care and other forms of non-parental and non-familial care, such as
"family day care" (meaning home daycare with other children by a woman who is
not a relative), are outside the main scope of this book. However, some of
the evidence cited applies also to part-time child care of more than 20 or
even just 10 hours a week.
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996,
Part One, Infants and Their Mothers - Some Aspects of
the Biological Background; Chapter
1,The Species-Normal Experience for Human Infants - A Biological and
Cross-Cultural Perspective, P27 |
We may note in passing that a chimpanzee mother
will surrender her infant to the care of another (related) female only as a
favor to that female, and (only) for a brief period.
(Since we are genetically very similar to
chimps, it follows that daycare goes against nature -- ed.)
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996, Chapter
1, P31 |
Child care advocates sometimes argue that the
infants are being properly returned to group care with multiple carers*, as
in a tribe. But they ignore the fact that, uniquely in the history of our
species, it (daycare) is a group in a enclosed institution which
does not include mother, relatives or anyone with a continuing bond or any
enduring emotional commitment to that child.
*Carers - Caregivers
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