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Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
pages 1-2
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Each day, millions of American infants and
toddlers face a terrifying trauma of which few parents are aware.
Consider the feelings of fright and helplessness in an infant who cannot
talk or understand words, who cannot protect himself or herself against the
approach of a stranger—a new caregiver whose voice, looks, smell, and touch
are unfamiliar. Suddenly, with no explanation nor the ability to understand
one, the child is confronted with a completely different person in place of
the mother or other unfamiliar caregiver with whom the child was beginning
to develop an all-important bond and attachment.
Category = Quality |
Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
page 3 |
But sadly, continuity of care is today
increasingly being denied to most American infants. Primary caregivers
for pre-verbal infants, whether at home or in a day-care center, come and go
with unfortunate frequency. The rate of turnover…is phenomenal.
Moreover, few of us are aware of the long-term implications of these
frequent changes. Infants cannot be prepared for these changes because they
lack the ability to understand words until they are about two years old. But
by that age, the constant change of primary caregivers has already been
experienced by the child as a profound emotional loss. This sense of loss
extends its negative influence over the child’s development for decades to
come.
Category =
Quality |
Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
page 15 |
The consequences of frequent changes of
caregivers have also been largely unappreciated. They include delinquency,
school dropouts, depression, substance abuse, and difficulties with
intimacy. These problems may not be obvious until many years have passed.
Thus, parents do not see—or accept—the causal connection between changing
caregivers during infancy and toddlerhood, and negative behavior years
later.
Category = Behavior |
Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
page 15 |
Yet, as psychologist Jay Belsky noted when he
commented upon the effects of placing infants in day care: “A relatively
persuasive circumstantial case can be made that early infant care may be
associated with increased avoidance of mother, possibly to the point of
greater insecurity in the attachment relationship, and that such care may be
associated with diminished compliance an cooperation with adults, increased
aggressiveness and possibly even greater social maladjustment in the
preschool and early school-age years.
Category = Behavior |
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