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New Research on Impact of Child Care
September 17, 2004

"Goodness is uneventful.  It does not flash, it glows."- David Grayson in Adventures in Contentment


New Research on Impact of Child Care

The January 2004 issue of Child Development contains the results of recent research on the impact of child care on the development of low-income children.  The study concluded that children from low-income families who spend long hours in child care may be better off than children left in a home environment.  Dr. Bruce Fuller, a researcher from the University of California at Berkeley who was part of the research team, observed:

"I think the results should soothe parents' worries since our findings show pretty remarkable cognitive skills in pre-reading levels and language skills for children in child care.  And this is good news because we also found that there were no negative effects on their behavior."

The study found that children display stronger intellectual growth when people caring for them are more sensitive and responsive.  They display stronger social development when the people providing child care are educated beyond high school.

For a complete summary of this study go to the link below and select the article entitled Child Care and Development of Low-Income Children from the the January/February 2004 issue:

http://www.srcd.org/psarchive.html



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