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Best bet for baby: day care or parent?
by Megan Rosenfeld, Chicago Sun-times,
9-Nov-86 |
Children who spend early years in day
care, it has been found, are growing up different: more hyperactive, less
responsive to adults, less curious, less altruistic toward other children,
less likely to make strong one-on-one relationships.
Category = Behavior |
Best bet for baby: day care or parent?
by Megan Rosenfeld, Chicago Sun-times,
9-Nov-86 |
The suggestion that day care is not good
for babies is explosive and controversial, and, as a result, no one really
wants to talk about it.
Category = Politics |
The Politics of Day-Care
by Douglas J. Besharov, The Washington Post,
21-Aug-88 |
EVERY DAY seems to bring (the presidential)
candidates to another child-care center -- to read a book to the kids, to
sing a song with them and soon, perhaps, to change a diaper. With the
polls telling politicians that child care could be a potent election issue,
preschool photo opportunities are viewed as good politics.
...(but) Most mothers of small children do not need -- or want -- full-time
licensed day care.
Category = Politics |
Proxy parenting: Is day care ruining our kids?
by Karl Zinsmeister, Chicago Sun-times,
30-Sep-88 |
Yet for all its new urgency, the
national day-care debate often ignores a central question: What effect does
it have on our children?
Category = Politics |
Proxy parenting: Is day care ruining our kids?
by Karl Zinsmeister, Chicago Sun-times,
30-Sep-88 |
A growing and worrisome body of evidence
suggests that when infants and toddlers go into full-time day care,
long-term emotional, intellectual and cultural damage can result.
Category = Behavior,
Development |
Proxy parenting: Is day care ruining our kids?
by Karl Zinsmeister, Chicago Sun-times,
30-Sep-88 |
...a number of different investigators
have found that when babies less than 1 year old are placed in day care,
many of them - perhaps as many as half - develop weak and insecure bonds
with their parents, bonds that are thought to be crucial to healthy later
development. Moreover, this effect is apparent in all social strata: in both
poor and middle-class children in good or bad programs and even among
youngsters with extremely expensive at-home caretakers.
Category = Behavior,
Quality |
Proxy parenting: Is day care ruining our kids?
by Karl Zinsmeister, Chicago Sun-times,
30-Sep-88 |
The deepest truth about paid child-rearing is
that it is rarely more than a weak stand-in for parental care.
...A child and a parent are bound eternally, by blood and destiny. A
day-care worker is doing a job.
Category = Quality |
Child-Care Credit is Test of Bush's "Kindness"
by Douglas J. Besharov and Paul N. Tramontozzi,
The Los Angeles Times, 11-Nov-88 |
...upper
income mothers are more likely to use day-care centers, which are more
expensive than family-based care...
Category = Politics |
