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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996,
Chapter 11, Summary, P 162-163 |
A biologically deviant environment without
precedent
Institutional long day care for infants and children under three years
represents a major deviation from that kind of environment which the history
of our species indicates has the ingredients to meet the early emotional
needs of such young children. It is unprecedented
to rear infants and young children in the absence of any other child or
adult who has an enduring commitment or relationship to that child.
Category = Behavior,
Quality |
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996, P163 |
Breastfeeding precluded
Breastfeeding is universally acknowledged to be the best way to feed babies,
giving health, cognitive and other benefits. Yet (breastfeeding) is
generally precluded* by early day care...
*Preclude = To
put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.
Category = Quality |
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996, P163 |
Young children have given no consent
Infants do not consent to early day care. They are the involuntary, and
often protesting, subjects of an unprecedented social experiment to replace
the daily experiences of mothering and fathering with institutional
child-minding in the guise of early "education". On placement in early day
care, even of good quality, some infants react adversely and for at least
many months.
Category = Quality |
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996, P164 |
Emotional poverty
Non-parental long day care was invented for the convenience of adults
not the needs or wishes of children. It involves risks and does not
optimally meet the needs of infants and toddlers. Many problems of quality
control, high rates of staff turnover, poor staff-child ratios and economic
considerations contribute to risks of emotional poverty in the child
care experiences of babies and toddlers.
Category = Behavior,
Economics, Quality |
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Early Childcare: Infants
and Nations at Risk by Dr. Peter Cook, ©1996, P165 |
Baby's point of view is usually left out
The baby's and young child's point of view has rarely been considered by
researchers, and there appears to be little, if any, experimental evidence
about what emotional lessons are being learned by infants subjected to the
long day care experience.
Category = Behavior,
Quality |
