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Day Care Deception -
What the Child Care Establishment Isn't Telling Us, by Brian
C. Robertson, Encounter Books,
San Francisco, © 2003, page 39 |
What one analyst
has called “caregiver roulette” is endemic in commercial day care, an
inherent aspect of the economy of scale* that
allows the system to function at all.
*Economies of Scale - These occur
when mass producing a good results in lower average cost. The more of
a good you produce, the less it costs for each additional unit. For
example, a plant that produces 1000 cars would be more efficient than a
plant producing five cars.
Category = Economics, Quality |
Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson, ©
2003, page 63 |
Burton White,
former director of the Harvard Preschool Project…writes, “I would not think
of putting an infant or toddler of my own into any substitute care program
on a full-time basis, especially a center-based program”.
Category = Quality
|
Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson, ©
2003, page 67 |
…clinician and
researcher Selma Frailberg…made the case that institutional day care, no
matter what the quality, is unable to satisfy the need every child has for
the devotion of one special adult.
Category = Development, Quality
|
Day Care Deception by Brian C.
Robertson, Encounter Books, San
Francisco, © 2003, page 68 &69 |
“Group care,
even under the best circumstances, is stressful for very young children.”
(Report from) a pilot program at Yale University…intended to create the
ideal day care environment for healthy development)
Category = Quality
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Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson,
© 2003, page 70 |
The other
element of commercial care that contributes to attachment disorders,
according to researchers, is the devastating drop in the sensitivity of
caregivers toward individual children in a group care setting. With
recent studies showing that half of all preschoolers in day care are moved
to different arrangements in the course of one year, that almost half of all
caregivers in day care centers quit their positions each year, and that the
staff turnover rate has accelerated sharply over the last decade, these
problems are clearly not going away—despite the highest rate of public
expenditure on day care in our history.
Category = Behavior, Quality |
Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson, ©
2003, page 72 |
Dr. Benjamin
Spock [the famous pediatrician and child care expert who lived from
1903-1998] (said) “a day nursery…is no good for an infant. There’s
nowhere near enough attention or affection to go around.” Since
children need full-time love and attention in their early years, he argued,
it is senseless for parents to “pay other people to do a poorer job of
bringing up their children.”
Category = Development, Quality |
Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson, ©
2003, page 79 |
As early as
1974, Developmental Psychology reported that three- and
four-year-olds who had been put in day care in their first year of life were
more physically and verbally abusive with adults and peers, less cooperative
and less tolerant of frustration than their home-reared counterparts.”
Category = Behavior |