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Child Care Concerns by Bill Muehlenberg,
The Australian Family,
March 2001, p.19
© 2000-2003 Australian Family Association
www.family.org.au/journal/2001/j20010319.html |
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.
One Australian study for example found that "children prone to respiratory
illness were more likely to be users of child care centres or creches than
the children who were not prone". Another study of 23 long-day-care centres
in Canberra found that on average children there suffered six more
respiratory infections a year compared with children not in care. Moreover,
some of these infections can be passed on to the parents. Other studies from
here and overseas have found that the diets of children in long day care can
be missing out on essential nutrients. A Norwegian study found that toddlers
who attend day care or nursery school are twice as likely to develop asthma.
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Child Care Concerns by Bill Muehlenberg,
The Australian Family,
March 2001, p.19
© 2000-2003 Australian Family Association
www.family.org.au/journal/2001/j20010319.html |
Other studies have found that not only are
children in day care at greater risk of disease, they are also at greater
risk of being abused. A recent study conducted for the National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in America found that there is a "substantial" risk
of sexual abuse in day care centres. In another study, 75 per cent of sexual
abuse victims in Michigan were day care children. Children can also be
neglected in child care centres. Numerous complaints have been made about
babies and toddlers being left alone in child care centres. In other
instances, children have been found to have wandered off from child care
centres.
Category = Danger |
Child Care Concerns by Bill Muehlenberg,
The Australian Family,
March 2001, p.19
© 2000-2003 Australian Family Association
www.family.org.au/journal/2001/j20010319.html |
An abundance of studies have made it clear that
what babies and toddlers need most is the continuous one-to-one attention of
a caregiver. This can rarely be obtained in group care. For one thing, the
ratio of children to staff is often 15 to 1, or worse, and secondly, there
is a very high turnover rate of staff at day care centres. As one expert put
it, "Many childcare youngsters will spend 12,000 hours in care before they
reach school, with dozens of different carers* - and that's if they stay at
one creche!"
*Carers- Caregivers
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Quality |
Child Care Concerns by Bill Muehlenberg,
The Australian Family,
March 2001, p.19
© 2000-2003 Australian Family Association
www.family.org.au/journal/2001/j20010319.html |
"While I - and most of my friends - were saying
our minds were `too good' to stay at home and raise our children, none of us
ever asked the question, `Then what sort of minds should be raising our
children - minds that were not very good?'
Category =
Quality |
Last updated:
02/13/2005
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