TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clarke-Stewart,Alison
AU  - Allhusen,Virginia D.
TI  - What We Know about Childcare
T2  - The Developing Child
SN  - 9780674271487
AV  - HQ778.63 .C583 2005
U1  - 362.71/2/0973 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Child care services
KW  - United States
KW  - Child care
KW  - Child development
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; PART ONE. A NATION TRANSFORMED --; 1. MAKING THE BEST OF DIFFICULT CHOICES --; 2. THE EVOLUTION OF CHILDCARE IN THE UNITED STATES --; 3. CHILDCARE IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY --; PART TWO. A QUARTER CENTURY OF RESEARCH --; 4. STUDYING CHILDCARE --; 5. EFFECTS OF CARE --; 6. VARIATIONS IN CARE --; 7. THE CAREGIVER’S ROLE --; 8. THE FAMILY’S PLACE --; PART THREE. LOOKING TO THE FUTURE --; 9. MAKING BETTER CHILDCARE CHOICES --; 10. PLANNING BETTER CHILDCARE RESEARCH --; 11. IMPLEMENTING BETTER CHILDCARE SOLUTIONS --; NOTES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Nearly three-quarters of American mothers work full- or part-time--usually out of financial necessity--and require regular child care. How do such arrangements affect children? If they are not at home with their mothers, will they be badly behaved, intellectually delayed, or emotionally stunted? Backed by the best current research, Alison Clarke-Stewart and Virginia Allhusen bring a reassuring answer to parents' fears and offer guidance for making difficult decisions. Quality child care, they show, may be even more beneficial to children than staying at home. Although children who spend many hours in care may be unruly compared with children at home, those who attend quality programs tend to be cognitively ahead of their peers. They are just as attached to their mothers and reap the additional benefits of engaging with other children. Ultimately, it's parents who matter most; what happens at home makes the difference in how children develop. And today's working mothers actually spend more time interacting with their children than stay-at-home mothers did a generation ago
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674271487?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674271487
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674271487/original
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