Daycare
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Daycare
（The developing child）
Harvard University Press, 1993
Rev. ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-200) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780674194052
Description
Modern parents experience more documented physical and psychological stress related to the provision of childcare than have any on record thus far. Statistics show that as a number of working mpothers has surged in the 1980s and the 1990s, the problems of negotiating the dual demands of work and home have also sharply increased in both complexity and number. The average working mother spends 40 hours a week in employment outside the home and another 36 caring for children and the home. Her average weekly commute has risen ten hours within the 1990s. More than ever, the emotional welfare of families depends on good daycare. In this revised and expanded edition of her study of 1982, Alison Clarke-Stewart draws on extensive research to survey the social, political and economic landscape of daycare between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s. Her evaluation of the current status, options and consequences of daycare are designed to enable parents to make informed choices for their children and provides a glimpse of how their choices will affect future generations.
The subject is approached from several angles: comparisons of past and present as well as American and global practices and reviews of the latest research into the effects of daycare on children's development. The text also looks at the emergence and current state of institutional daycare in both corporations and schools. As she explores the social and emotional environment for this field, the author lays out all the necessary ingredients for success and offers a checklist parents can use to assess their own arrangements.
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: pbk ISBN 9780674194069
Description
There are eight million preschoolers whose mothers now work, most of them because of economic necessity. For these mothers the question is not whether to use daycare, but how to choose among the available options in a way that is best for the child. These are just the questions taken up in Daycare, a brief and readable summary of the best information modern "baby science" has to offer about how daycare affects young children and how to tell the difference between daycare that helps and daycare that hurts.
On the basis of her own research and a complete review of the most recent daycare studies, Alison Clarke-Stewart concludes that good daycare definitely does not impair the child's development either emotionally or intellectually. Fears that daycare children will fail to develop proper parental attachments and will cling instead to their peers are unfounded; so too are fears that mental growth will be slowed. In fact, there is some evidence that social and intellectual development can be facilitated in good daycare environments. The real question is just what these environments are made of, and here Daycare provides a complete discussion of the necessary ingredients, including a checklist that parents can use to make their own evaluation of any daycare arrangement.
This is a book that covers all the practical problems daycare parents must face and suggests ways to solve them that are based not on psychological theory or political conviction but on the facts as we now know them.
by "Nielsen BookData"
