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Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson, Encounter Books,
San Francisco
© 2003, page
84 |
In 1986, sociologist J. Conrad
Schwartz found that group care was "associated with lower intelligence,
poorer verbal skills and shorter attention."
Category = Development |
Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson, ©
2003, page
84 |
A University of Missouri study from
1991 found that "no day care in infancy was the
best predictor of above average high school achievement."
Another study from the same year found that third-graders who had been
placed in day care as preschoolers had lower grades and demonstrated poorer
study skills...
Category = Development |
Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson, ©
2003, page 86 |
The illnesses
and infections rampant in the group care setting range from mild to very
serious. Infants in day care, for instance, have almost twice the rate
of inner ear infections as infants raised at home. The incidence of
respiratory illness is also much higher in day care centers: 100 percent
higher for infants, and 25 to 50 percent higher for older preschoolers than
for their counterparts at home.
For one respiratory illness—pneumococcal disease—the risk of infection is 36
times higher among children under two in day care than it is among children
cared for in the home.
The incidence of hemophilus influenza type B is twelve times higher for
children in day care; infection rates for giardiasis (a type of diarrhea)
fifteen to twenty times higher.
Category = Disease |
Day Care Deception
by Brian C. Robertson, ©
2003, age 86 |
Some illnesses
transmitted with disturbing frequency in day care are very serious indeed,
and are often spread from day care centers to the community at large
(“Children in day care are responsible for many community disease
outbreaks,” reports an article in American Family Physician.)
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, bacterial meningitis and
hepatitis A occur at much higher rates in day care centers; 50 percent of
day care centers that admit children under two experience outbreaks of
hepatitis A. Public health officials have speculated that “day care
centers may represent the major source of hepatitis A cases of uncertain
origin” (more than 60 percent of all cases). Experts have
characterized death rates from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) as
“disproportionately high” in day care centers…
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