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Child Care: Who Benefits?
by Jennifer Buckingham
Centre for Independent Studies,
Executive Summary No. 89, p. 6
www.cis.org.au
24-Oct-2007 |
The findings can be briefly summarised:
high-quality child care is better for children than low quality child care,
when quality is measured by staff/child ratios, staff qualifications,
learning programmes and physical environment. This is true for all children,
but especially for children from impoverished homes.
Equally important, however, is what these studies do not show.
They do not
show that centre-based child care is superior to parental care for all
children. They do not show that long hours in centre-based child care are
beneficial (or even harmless) for all children.
They do not show that centre-based child care is beneficial (or even
harmless) for babies and infants, except those whose parental care is poor.
Category =
Behavior, Development, Quality |
Child Care: Who Benefits?
by Jennifer Buckingham
Centre for Independent Studies,
Executive Summary No. 89, p. 6
www.cis.org.au
24-Oct-2007 |
Cortisol research gives us a better indication
that young children’s experience of child care is not benign. Cortisol is
known as the stress hormone, and is released by the body when humans
experience a threat, feel unsafe, or unsure of themselves.
...The normal pattern of cortisol release is a peak in the morning and a
decline throughout the day. US researcher Sarah Watamura and colleagues
found that seven out of ten children aged one-and-a-half to 3 years
increased their cortisol output throughout the day at child care, but most
of these same children did not have elevated cortisol levels on their days
at home
Category =
Disease |
Child Care: Who Benefits?
by Jennifer Buckingham
Centre for Independent Studies,
Executive Summary No. 89, p. 7
www.cis.org.au
24-Oct-2007 |
...children who had received high hours of care had poorer academic ratings,
whereas children whose child care had been less extensive were rated as more
competent learners. University of Melbourne
academic Kay Margetts has looked at the relationship between duration,
timing and type of childcare and adjustment in the first year of formal
schooling. She found that ‘more extensive non-parental care in the years
closest to birth increases the risk of children having difficulty adjusting
to the first year of schooling in all domains; social, behavioural and
academic.’ Margetts did not find any significant
difference in the risks associated with types of non-parental care: early
onset and long hours of all non-parental care increased the risk of later
problems, especially behavioural.
Category =
Behavior, Development, Quality |
Child Care: Who Benefits?
by Jennifer Buckingham
Centre for Independent Studies,
Executive Summary No. 89, p. 8-9
www.cis.org.au
24-Oct-2007 |
(Anne Manne wrote) "in modern societies, on every
health issue, the agreed principle is that every person adopting a
recommended course of action should know the risks as well as the suggested
benefits." The evidence suggests that
well-designed, tightly-targeted programmes can be effective for children
from socioeconomically disadvantaged families, but it does not justify
universal child care.
ANU economist Andrew Leigh agrees with Heckman
and has argued that Australian policy-makers are aware of the research
evidence and have ‘read the headline but skipped the story’. As a result,
taxpayer dollars are flowing to universal, low-impact early childhood
programmes instead of intensive programmes where they are most needed.
The most that can be said with any certainty,
based on early-intervention studies, is that children from socially and
economically disadvantaged families can benefit from high-quality child
care, probably best delivered on a part-time basis. It is by no means clear
that such advantages extend to the broader range of children, or to
full-time formal child care for infants. A case for increased public funding
of universal child care cannot,
therefore, be based on these claims.
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Behavior, Development, Politics, Quality |
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