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Ships Without A Shore: America's Undernurtured Children by Anne
Pierce,
©2008, p. 118-119 |
It is important to note that included in
the studies that confirm our innate knowledge about what children need,
but which never come into public view, are recent studies from Canada,
Australia, England, and New Zealand.
The large Canadian study, published in 2006, found that children raised in
day care were seventeen times more hostile than children raised at home and
almost three times more anxious.
…An Australian study, published in 2006, confirmed prior research finding
that day care seems to harm babies’ brain chemistry and negatively affect
their social-emotional development.
…A British (EPPE*) study published in 2005
found "high levels of group care” before age three was associated with
higher levels of anti-social behavior…
EPPE = Effective
Provision of Pre-School Education
Category = Behavior, Development |
Ships Without A Shore: America's Undernurtured Children by Anne
Pierce,
©2008, p. 121
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Day care is
precisely that “subtle form of language deprivation,” for, in day care,
children are deprived of the optimal conditions for language development.
Again, in day care, there is both too much stimulation and not enough. There
is too much stimulation of the loud, turbulent, unintelligible kind and not
enough of the calm, attuned, intelligible kind that comes when one adult
speaks with one child.
Category = Development |
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Ships Without A Shore: America's Undernurtured Children by Anne
Pierce,
©2008, p. 122 |
Clearly, in day
care centers, children receive lots of noise but little conversation.
It is of little help that day care centers have dubbed themselves Learning
Centers.
…In day care centers the baby who “talks” too often is not listened to or
not heard.
Category = Development |
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Ships Without A Shore: America's Undernurtured Children by Anne
Pierce,
©2008, p. 123 |
Even the best day
care centers cannot provide the kind of one-on-one interaction babies and
toddlers need if their brains are to “thrive.” University of London
psychologists compared the language used by eighteen-month-old children
cared for at home with the language used by “advantaged” children of the
same age cared for in day care or “nursery:”
The British researchers found
that when compared to children cared for at home, children in group care or
day-care centers were “less likely to have language records indicative of
advanced language development.
…The psychologists considered
their findings “particularly striking” since the parents of the children in
day care enjoyed notable advantages in income, occupational status, and
education over the parents of the children cared for at home.
Category = Development |
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Ships Without A Shore: America's Undernurtured Children by Anne
Pierce,
©2008, p. 126 |
If being with
parents is best for young children, then government should facilitate the
parent-child relationship. Surely, government should not actively discourage
that relationship. Rather than subsidizing day care with tax dollars that
obligate mothers who choose to bringing up their children to subsidize more
prosperous mothers who do not…
…tax breaks should be given to families to do with what they will. When
government aid is provided for day care, it should not encourage group-based
care while discouraging family-based or in-home care.
Category = Politics |
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Ships Without A Shore: America's Undernurtured Children by Anne
Pierce,
©2008, p. 192 |
Drive through our
neighborhoods’ empty streets and ask yourself not merely where the children
have gone but where childhood has gone. It is most unlikely you will see a
child sitting under a tree with a book, or friends engaged in collecting
bugs, leave, and sticks. Where are the children? They are in day care
centers, now dubbed “learning centers.”
Category = Politics |
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