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How Not to F*** Them Up
by Oliver James*,
©2010, p286
*British clinical psychologist, journalist, bestselling book author, and
television documentary producer. and presenter |
While debate exists about the extent of the
effect of day care on aggression - how many children are affected, how much
- nobody now disputes that this is a main effect of day care. Even if it
only makes a small proportion, such as 10% of children, more aggressive, and
even if the increase is simply at the level of defiance and disruptiveness
rather than full-scale violence., this become enormously significant when
the numbers of children involved are in the millions, over several
generations. Unsurprisingly, very few researchers and no politicians at all
are prepared to say it, but the huge rise in day care could be greatly
increasing the levels of aggression, incivility and even violence in our
society.
Category = Behavior, Politics |
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How Not to F*** Them Up
by Oliver James,
©2010, p291 |
Another body of studies concerned day care in
Israel. For many years there it had been common practice not only for young
children to spend the day in care but for them also to stay the night.
Evidence accumulated that children who stayed overnight were much more at
risk of insecurity than ones who only spent the day in care. This strongly
suggests that extensive periods apart from parents increase the risk of
insecurity and that this extreme form of day care independently causes it
(indeed, overnight sleeping was subsequently discontinued in Israel).
Category = Behavior, Disease |
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How Not to F*** Them Up
by Oliver James,
©2010, p291-292 |
In (the Haifa Study of Early Child Care), center
care infants were insecurely attached to their mothers at a higher rate than
infants who were ... in maternal care...The Israeli study suggests that
center care in and of itself does increase the likelihood of insecurity
attachment relationships between infants and their mothers.
...the Israeli findings are surely of considerable importance. As also
noted, there is a strong tendency for interested parties to gloss over the
uncomfortable evidence...
Category = Behavior, Disease |
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How Not to F*** Them Up
by Oliver James,
©2010, p294-295 |
Likewise, it would be unsurprising if a greater
vulnerability to depression in adult life were found among children who had
been in ... day care for long hours. Prolonged separation from parents has
been shown to have caused long-term depression and insecurity in large
samples of adults who were evacuated during the Second World War...
But day care entails repeated and more or less prolonged separation from
mother. It would not be surprising if it has similar...long-term effects.
Taken with the established adverse effects of day care, these observations
provide a basis for speculating about the impact of differing national
caregiving practices. In the case of Scandinavia, for example, despite
decades of nationalised day care, there has not been one single study
evaluating its emotional consequences. As a leading Dane told me, such
research would not be commissioned in case it demonstrated problems that
were felt to be ideologically incompatible with the high number of working
mothers of under-threes.
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