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Day Careless
(dangers of day care
to children)
by Maggie Gallagher,
(Cover Story) National Review,
26-Jan-98 |
Just how harmful is the day care most children
receive? The evidence falls into two categories. The first comes from
medical researchers. Day care, it turns out, is definitely not good for
babies' health. This is not surprising: group care exposes babies and
toddlers to large numbers of biological strangers, many of whom are not
toilet trained and who drool, making day care a breeding ground for
infectious disease.
Category =
Disease |
Day Careless,
(dangers of day care
to children)
by Maggie Gallagher,
(Cover Story) National Review,
26-Jan-98 |
THE medical consequences of group care should
be disturbing enough. But nearly as chilling is the large number of studies
that link early, extensive day care with psychological, social, and
behavioral problems.
A 1994 international meta-analysis by Claudio Violato and Clare Russell of
the University of Calgary, involving over 22,000 children, concludes:
"Full-time care for infants and young children [puts] a substantial
proportion of the population at risk for psychological maladaptation."
Category =
Behavior |
Day Careless,
(dangers of day care
to children)
by Maggie Gallagher,
(Cover Story) National Review,
26-Jan-98 |
Many … studies also find that children in
extensive day care are more aggressive with peers and less compliant with
the requests of adults. In a Texas study of 236 children by Deborah Lowe
Vandell and Mary Anne Corasaniti, for example, 8-year-olds who had a
history of extensive day care received lower ratings by teachers and parents
for compliance, work habits, peer relationships, and emotional health.
Day-care kids also received lower academic and conduct grades and were rated
more difficult to discipline. In this study,
child-care history was a better predictor of problems than family
characteristics such as socioeconomic status.
Category = Behavior, Development |
Day Careless,
(dangers of day care
to children)
by Maggie Gallagher,
(Cover Story) National Review,
26-Jan-98 |
Given the research on the quality of existing
infant care, the NICHHD study thus strongly suggests that most children
now placed in early day care are at intellectual risk. This is
particularly true when educated mothers leave their babies in the care of
less educated caregivers.
One longitudinal study* of 33 private nurseries in Great Britain, for
example, found that 6-year-olds who had been placed in extensive day care as
infants had retarded language skills compared to home-reared children. This
finding, reports Patricia Morgan, a senior research fellow at the Institute
for Educational Affairs and author of Who Needs Parents?, was the more
remarkable given that the parents of day-care toddlers were of higher
socioeconomic status on average than the parents of home-reared toddlers.
*longitudinal study - Studies in which
variables relating to an individual or group of individuals are assessed
over a period of time.
Category =
Development |
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