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Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
page 62 |
…today’s caregivers…(change) with mind-numbing
frequency.
A 1990 University of California study found that even at the “best” day-care
centers, the turnover rate for (day-care workers) caregivers was very
high—over 40 percent annually.
Category = Quality |
Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
page 62 |
Another child care authority, Marcy Whitebrook
said that “[t]urnover among child care workers is second only to parking lot
and gas station attendants. Surely we can offer our children a better
quality of care than we give our automobiles!
Category = Quality |
Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
page 62 |
The Carnegie Report further confirms the dangers
to infants and toddlers of frequent changes in caregivers by noting that
such “turnover has consequences for infants and toddlers: ‘what we call
turnover’ Deborah Phillips, an expert in child development said, ‘they
experience as loss.’
Category = Quality |
Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
page 63 |
…the “best” day-care centers can unwittingly
compound a caregiver “roulette” process because of their very laudable
concerns in providing a low caregiver-to-infant ratio.
Such a policy requires more trained personnel: obviously if the
infant-to-caregiver ratio is the preferred one-to-three, more such
caregivers are needed than if, say, a one-to-seven ratio is provided. But
such care is tiring and demanding. To help such staff members, there are
breaks, staggered shifts, rotation of personnel, and other measures, which
can result in an infant being cared for by six or more persons in one day!
And remember, from the infant’s standpoint, this variety of change is in
addition to all the others already described.
Category = Quality |
Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
pages 63-64 |
A most disturbing report on child day-care
centers was published in April 1995 by the University of Colorado. This
contained the findings of child-care authorities at four major universities.
The report stated that at most child-care centers “the levels of quality
required to support children’s development are not being met.” Of the 401
centers studied, only “14% were rated as developmentally appropriate—while
the remaining 86% scored from poor to mediocre.”
Category = Quality |
