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Talking about Childcare: What's the Research Really Say?,
by Diane K. McHale, Mothering Magazine, Issue 112,
May/June 2002 |
(The Media)...did not discuss how badly infants in daycare centers get sick.
However, another study found that children
under two were more likely to be hospitalized
for lower respiratory tract illnesses if they were
in daycare centers...
...A Finnish study of 2,568 children found that children in daycare centers
accounted for 85 percent of the pneumonia cases in one-year-olds.
Category = Disease |
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Talking about Childcare: What's the Research Really Say?,
by Diane K. McHale, Mothering Magazine, May/June 2002 |
For ear infections, daycare is a risk factor
of "admission to hospital,
adenoidectomy, and insertion of a tympanostomy tube. [In one study]
children in daycare had a 50 percent higher chance of
repeated ear infections. In a nine-country study,
children in daycare more more likely to
have a history of poor hearing,
tympanostomy tubes, tonsillectomy, or adenoidectomy."
Category = Disease |
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Childcare decisions by Jim Thompson, Kentucky Living, p. 45,
May 2003 |
Non-maternal childcare...children lag in intellectual development behind
kids of stay-at-home...moms, according to a study led by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
at Columbia University's Teachers College.
Category = Development |
Concerns about Child Care-Part 1
by BILL MUEHLENBERG , National Observer (Australia), 22-Jun-03
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Mary Carlson of the Harvard Medical
School said, "Our findings support clinical research showing that infants
cared for in institutions grow slowly and have behavioural retardation".7
The work of people such as John Bowlby, Selma Fraiberg, Robert Karen, Jay
Belsky, Ronald Haskins and Mary Ainsworth, to name but a few, has shown a
clear connection between extended periods of maternal absence, and lengthy
stays in day care (as little as 10 hours a week) for infants, and later
developmental problems.
Category = Development |
Concerns about Child Care-Part 1
by BILL MUEHLENBERG , National Observer (Australia), 22-Jun-03 |
Ernest Foyer, former U.S. commissioner
of education, and president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching, has said that children in day care suffer in terms of language
skills development. ...Other studies have even found that children who spend
a substantial time in child care are more likely to join gangs as surrogate
families.
Category = Development |
Concerns about Child Care-Part 1
by BILL MUEHLENBERG , National Observer (Australia), 22-Jun-03 |
Some Australian researchers have sought to
dismiss overseas studies which suggest that child care can have negative
consequences for young children. Some Australian studies seem to tone down
or explain away findings on any adverse effects on children. Yet they too
have to admit that children brought up in long hours of day care are more
aggressive, bratty and uncooperative. Even though they try to put a good
spin on such findings, and say such brattiness is not a sign of "emotional
maladjustment", any teacher or parent will tell you otherwise. (For an
excellent analysis of the many shortcomings of this and other studies, see
Early Child Care by Peter Cook.) Indeed, other Australian researchers have
found that these bratty preschoolers are more likely to grow up to be
chronic drink-drivers*. Other Australian studies have found that children do
better in school if they have not been in child care.
* Drink-Drivers = Drunk Drivers
Category = Behavior, Development |
Concerns about Child Care-Part 1
by BILL MUEHLENBERG , National Observer (Australia), 22-Jun-03 |
Those who argue that day care does not harm
children should bear the burden of proof.
...if we are not certain about the long-term effects of day care on young
children, why unnecessarily put them at risk? Why treat them as guinea pigs?
Category = Behavior, Development |
Concerns about Child Care-Part 1
by BILL MUEHLENBERG , National Observer (Australia), 22-Jun-03 |
In addition, a number of studies from here and
overseas have shown that there is a much higher risk of physical health
problems associated with day care. Colds, diarrhoea, coughs, hepatitis A,
respiratory complaints, mumps, measles, influenza, cytomegalovirus,
meningitis are some of the medical problems which abound in day care centres.
A Norwegian study found that toddlers who attend day care or nursery school
are twice as likely to develop asthma.
Category = Disease |
Concerns about Child Care-Part 1
by BILL MUEHLENBERG , National Observer (Australia), 22-Jun-03 |
And as Patricia Morgan explains, "Affordable care
is low-quality care. Universally available high-quality care is achievable
nowhere on earth."59
Secondly, day care work is a thankless and underpaid job. To enable day
carers* to better perform their tasks, they need all the comforts other
workers get; rostered time off, lunch and tea breaks, shift work, vacation
time. But this is the Catch 22** situation: the better we make working
conditions for the carers, the more we disadvantage the infant! That is, the
more flexi-time we give the carer, the less continuous, long-term attention
the baby gets from one carer.
*Carer = Daycare
Worker
**From its use in the satirical novel by the American author Joseph Heller,
the phrase "Catch-22" is common idiomatic usage meaning "a no-win situation"
Category = Quality |
Concerns about Child Care-Part 1
by BILL MUEHLENBERG , National Observer (Australia), 22-Jun-03 |
Day care can never come up to (a mother's)
standard. As Leach says, "That vital continuous one-to-one attention can
rarely be achieved in group care, however excellent the facility may be.
Babies in their first year need one primary adult each, and while that may
be inconvenient, it is not very surprising. Human beings do not give birth
to litters but almost always to single babies.
Category = Quality |
Concerns about Child Care-Part 1
by BILL MUEHLENBERG , National Observer (Australia), 22-Jun-03 |
And child care experts even concede this point in
the choices they make. A 1996 survey of Macquarie University early child
care students with experience in day care found that no students said they
would put their babies in a child care centre.
Category = Quality |
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