If high quality child care can potentially buffer the effects on infants and young children of insensitive caregiving and family stresses, then efforts to improve the quality of care normatively available to children from difficult family settings seem warranted.
Not exact matches
State lawmakers are beginning to ask how this new knowledge can (or even
if it should) influence policy decisions in early childhood development, spurring a growing interest in programs such as
high -
quality child care, pre-kindergarten and home visiting.
Also,
if the parents chose out - of - home
child care, they chose
higher -
quality care.
Children reared in a high - quality caregiving ecology are set on a positive developmental path that has the potential to produce long - term positive outcomes.68 Already vulnerable from the experiences of maltreatment and other environmental risk factors (for example, poverty and its associated stressors), the development of foster children is further compromised if they experience more trauma and instability while
Children reared in a
high -
quality caregiving ecology are set on a positive developmental path that has the potential to produce long - term positive outcomes.68 Already vulnerable from the experiences of maltreatment and other environmental risk factors (for example, poverty and its associated stressors), the development of foster
children is further compromised if they experience more trauma and instability while
children is further compromised
if they experience more trauma and instability while in
care.
First, the type of program this paper evaluates does not reflect that much more money to provide comprehensive,
high quality early childhood education, especially
if you factor in the cost of health
care and nutrition that is spent outside of
child care.
An expanding research literature indicates that
child care is associated with stronger cognitive, language and math skills when
children are in school, especially
if the
quality of
child care is
high.