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Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.31-32 |
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
in adults is now often diagnosed, and yet—because they can only tell us with
a cry, often followed by despair and emotional detachment—it is seldom
recognized that babies and infants are much less well-equipped to cope with
stress and painful emotional experiences than are mature adults.
(Cortisol levels research) suggests that there is evidence that, under some
circumstances, early institutional childcare can indeed lead to a
‘post-traumatic stress disorder.’
Category = Behavior |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.34 |
In the mid-20th century, there was a
lack of hard evidence about the many possible ill-effects of early
childcare. But
absence of evidence was often
regarded as evidence of absence—which is a quite different matter.
Early childcare has never actually been shown to be safe.
Category = Behavior, Danger, Development |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.35 |
Early studies of childcare increasingly
showed grounds for concern, but this evidence was dismissed by childcare
advocates, who highlighted any findings showing benefits, as sometimes
occurred when children from disadvantaged backgrounds were placed in the
best quality childcare that could be made available.
Sometimes the results were generalized by childcare advocates, as if they
also applied to childcare of lower quality, and/or to children from less
disadvantaged homes.
Category = Behavior, Development, Politics, Quality |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.35 |
The fact remains that for children
under three years of age, non-family childcare involves a massive experiment
in raising infants and young children in institutional centers in the
absence of any adults who are related or who have any continuing commitment
to them.
Category = Behavior, Development |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.36 |
Boys having more than 30 hours a week in
nonmaternal childcare had a significantly increased risk of insecure
attachment, regardless of the
quality of the childcare or other factors.
Category = Behavior, Quality |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.36 |
(In 2003, Belsky—as one of the leading
scholars in the NICHD Network) said that, contrary to the expectations (and
desires) of many in the field, the most comprehensive investigation into the
effects of daycare on child development had now confirmed that the more time
children spent in daycare arrangements up to 54 months of age, the more
aggression, disobedience and conflict with adults these children showed in
kindergarten at that age. These patterns remained, even after the study had
controlled for many features of the children’s families and the quality and
type of daycare that the children had experienced. The study found that
spending a lot of time in daycare predicted more truly aggressive and
disobedient behavior, not just more assertive or independent behavior, as
some had alleged.
Category = Behavior, Quality |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.36 |
(Belsky said) Because child-care is here
to stay, the argument goes, only the improvement of its quality is
important. Anyone highlighting disconcerting evidence is simply against
child-care.
Category = Politics, Quality |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.37 |
...in 2007, the NICHD Network reported,
“children who spent more time in center-based settings from birth through
school entry have somewhat more problems with aggressive and disobedient
behavior through sixth grade than children who spent less time in centers,
regardless of the quality of care.”
Category = Behavior, Quality |
Mothering Denied - The sources of love, and
how our culture harms infants, women, and society
by Dr. Peter Cook,
©2009, p.39 |
In November 2008, the NICHD Study of
Early Child Care and Youth Development released another report about the
follow-up to age 15 years. This presented evidence that...“Higher hours of
nonrelative care predicted greater risk-taking and impulsivity at age 15”
Category = Behavior |
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