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Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", p228 |
Studies measuring the levels of stress hormones
provide additional evidence that day care is stressful for children.
Children who spend long hours in day care have higher levels of cortisol
than other children, and cortisol is at a higher level when a child is in
day care than when he or she is at home.
Category =
Behavior, Disease |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", p230 |
Recent research supports the notion that even the
most expensive and professionally staffed day care center is not of high
quality compared with maternal care...
Category =
Quality |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", p230 |
One large study of "better than average" child
care (daycare) centers found that...75 percent of the teaching staff and 40
percent of the directors had left their jobs.
Category =
Quality |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", p230 |
To be sure, the (United States) federal government already helps
(daycare) a great deal by providing block grants to the states for
subsidized child care and untaxed employer-provided child care benefits. The
federal government also provides a tax credit for dual-earner families using
commercial care--a credit that benefits (higher income) families
Category =
Politics |
Taking Sex Differences Seriously
By Steven E. Rhoads, ©2004
Chapter 9, "Day Care", p231 |
(Even if daycare workers salaries could be
improved), what sort of quality will we be left with? First, turnover will
be reduced, but it will be far from eliminated. Child care workers leave
jobs for lots of reasons besides low pay. They may change professions, go
back to school, get married and move away, have a baby and decide to take
some time off. Or maybe they just decide they'd rather work for a different
child care center--one that just opened up closer to home or that a friend
has started.
Category =
Quality |
