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Book |
Quote/Comment |
Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
page 64 |
The majority of American children who are in
child care centers spend many hours in mediocre quality setting that are
detrimental to their development…[T]he American
public, although adoring young children…blindly engages in self-deception
about child care quality so great it could be deemed societal child
neglect.”
Category = Politics, Quality |
Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
page 64 |
Child-care authority Professor Burton White of
Harvard University put it this way: “After more than 20 years of research on
how children develop well, I would not think of putting a child of my own
into any substitute care program on a full time basis, especially a (day
care) center based program.”
Category = Quality |
Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
page 65 |
In fact, study after study that I have reviewed
reveals that substitute care facilities, whether run-of-the mill day-care
centers or high quality university-based centers…often seem to share one
common problem: caregivers in such settings change very frequently. And
it is quite irrelevant to the children involved whether such changes are
described as: “lack of stability,” “turnover of child-care personnel,” or
“poor quality day care”.
It is the unpredictability of the environment that causes the distress for
infants and toddlers.
Category = Quality |
Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
page 65 |
Day care, whether rendered by the most
prestigious university centers…often suffers from one important defect: the
factor I call caregiver roulette.
The infant or toddler never knows in whose arms he or she will land.
When these arms change frequently, the children are more likely to
experience emotional distress with the concomitant potential for problems
later in life. This is especially true if they experience multiple losses of
the persons who care for them.
Category = Quality |
Being There: The Benefits of a Stay-at-Home
Parent
by Isabelle Fox with Norman M. Losenz
1996
page 67 |
(Dr. Jay Belsky) concluded “that entry into
(daycare) in the first year of life is a risk factor for the development of
insecure avoidant attachments in infancy, and heightened aggressiveness,
non-compliance and withdrawal in the preschool and early school years.
Category = Behavior |
