Sentences with phrase «parental child care quality»

Parents were surveyed regarding their parenting practices (e.g., parental involvement and social support for parenting), and nursery staff members evaluated the social skills development of each child in the facility, as well as aspects of parental child care quality.

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Recommendations from the study included increasing the quality of child care, especially for infants and toddlers, but also, importantly, educing the amount of time that children need to spend in child care through promoting paid parental leave and flexible working hours, and funding programs that support sensitive and responsive parenting.

But the risk is that without attention to the social and cultural realities of raising children in a country that does not offer paid parental leave, does not invest in quality child care, and in general does not significantly support parents or children, these recommendations may leave parents in a difficult or even untenable bind.

But as a country, we are still ignoring the issue: we don't require companies to provide paid parental leave, for instance, and we do little else to support quality early child care.

Minimum standards can help ensure that every child has equal access to quality care, irrespective of parental income.

As BBA has long emphasized, bringing our nation into line with our Western peers in terms of such basic family supports as paid parental leave, accessible high - quality child care, and pre-k that is available to all children, not only those lucky enough to have parents who can pay for it, would go a long way toward leveling the academic playing field, not to mention boosting the economy in numerous ways.

They view universal pre-kindergarten as not just an end in itself but also a first step toward much more comprehensive public social welfare programs for preschool - age children and their families: prenatal care, parental leave, universal children's health care, and quality child care.

▶ The quality of the home environment for child development indexed by aspects of parental care giving, measured by observation and maternal interview in the home at child - age 12 and 24 months using the HOME Inventory.18

The court is guided by the best interests of the child, and considers: the relationship of the child with each parent and the ability and disposition of each parent to provide the child with love, affection and guidance, the ability and disposition of each parent to assure that the child receives adequate food, clothing, medical care, other material needs and a safe environment, the ability and disposition of each parent to meet the child's present and future developmental needs, the quality of the child's adjustment to the child's present housing, school and community and the potential effect of any change, the ability and disposition of each parent to foster a positive relationship and frequent and continuing contact with the other parent, including physical contact, except where contact will result in harm to the child or to a parent, the quality of the child's relationship with the primary care provider, if appropriate given the child's age and development, the relationship of the child with any other person who may significantly affect the child, the ability and disposition of the parents to communicate, cooperate with each other and make joint decisions concerning the children where parental rights and responsibilities are to be shared or divided, and any evidence of abuse.

These programs include the Nurse Family Partnership, 16,17 Healthy Families America, 18,19 Healthy Start, 20,21 Early Head Start, 22,23 the Comprehensive Child Development Program, 24 — 26 and Early Start.27, 28 All of these programs have been evaluated by using randomized control designs but findings from these trials have been mixed, with some programs showing benefits and others failing to show benefits.29, 30 In a recent review, Howard and Brooks - Gunn30 found that home - visiting programs had reported benefits for a number of outcomes, including child abuse, child health care, quality of home environment, parenting, parental depression, and childhood cognitive skChild Development Program, 24 — 26 and Early Start.27, 28 All of these programs have been evaluated by using randomized control designs but findings from these trials have been mixed, with some programs showing benefits and others failing to show benefits.29, 30 In a recent review, Howard and Brooks - Gunn30 found that home - visiting programs had reported benefits for a number of outcomes, including child abuse, child health care, quality of home environment, parenting, parental depression, and childhood cognitive skchild abuse, child health care, quality of home environment, parenting, parental depression, and childhood cognitive skchild health care, quality of home environment, parenting, parental depression, and childhood cognitive skills.

To reach this decision, the court will evaluate several factors outlined in state law, such as each parent's ability to provide adequate care for the child, quality of each parent - child relationship, and each parent's willingness to engage in parental responsibilities and not intrude upon the other parent's relationship with the child.

Concrete actions by policy makers, already practised in many counties, are: matching paid parental leave to the rate and duration observed in Scandinavian countries; providing adequate public funding and developing tax policies that allow parents to make appropriate child - rearing choices, paying greater attention to children from poor or diverse backgrounds; integrating child care and early education under one ministry or agency and thereby enhancing quality, qualification requirements, accessibility and affordability.

Adverse outcomes are not merely by - products of low - quality child care but stem also from stress caused by separation, which suggests that parental leaves should be extended to one year, which is the increasing practice in European countries.

We also know relatively little about how the effects of maternal employment or parental leave differ depending on factors such as the sex of the child, household structure, parental education, and the availability of high - quality child care.

Although high - quality day care may buffer the negative effect of parental insensitivity in some cases, the security of child - parent attachment is primarily guided by the sensitivity of maternal care.

The implications of research into the effects of child care clearly support the provision of high - quality care and parental access to such care.

Recommendations from the study included increasing the quality of child care, especially for infants and toddlers, but also, importantly, educing the amount of time that children need to spend in child care through promoting paid parental leave and flexible working hours, and funding programs that support sensitive and responsive parenting.

Further, despite accumulated findings on parental socialization, and early childhood research that shows that teachers are engaging in emotion socialization behaviours, we know little about how teachers (or, for that matter, peers or siblings) socialize children's EC.34 Research is also needed to discern possible indirect contributors to EC, such as parental psychopathology, divorce, poverty and child care quality.

These factors include 1) environmental risk factors such as living in an unsafe community, receiving care within a low - quality child care setting, lack of resources available in the community or lack of policies supporting children and families, etc, 2) family risk factors such as maternal depression or mental illness in the family, parental substance abuse, family violence, poverty, etc. and 3) within - child risk factors such as a fussy temperament, developmental delay, and serious health issues.

Although the reported parents show deficits on a number of levels, nonetheless the capacity for protecting the child depends primarily on the quality of the care given by his parent, and this parental capacity can be improved only through intervention in the parent - child relationship;

It has been reported that maternal PPD is a predictor of paternal one since the first is higher during the three months postpartum.8 Based on the existing knowledge of maternal PPD, literature suggests that also paternal PPD could be related with hormonal changes regarding alteration of testosterone, estrogen, vasopressin, prolactin and cortisol levels.10 In addition to mood disturbances, high parenting distress levels could also be considered a important factor compromising the parenting competence and the daily child care.17 Parenting stress is a construct related to the parent role and influenced by expectations and perceptions of child characteristics, parent characteristics and parental - infant interaction quality.

Although previous studies have already shown that better quality of parental care and family environment is associated with better development of child social skills, the present study sought to examine in detail the specific parenting factors that contribute to more sound developmental trajectories of social skills.

The result shown in Table 4 revealed that global parenting quality consistently and significantly distinguished between the low group and both the moderately low and high groups (for Cooperation, B =.11, p <.01, B =.09, p =.01, respectively; for Self - Control, B =.14, p <.01, B =.17, p <.01, respectively; for Assertion, B =.09, p <.01, B =.13, p <.01, respectively), indicating that global quality of parental child care fertilizes all three dimensions of child social skills.

First, children's sustained attention and impulsivity at age 4.5 years partially mediated the relation between parenting quality (as measured by a composite index of physical and social resources in the home, observer ratings of parental sensitivity and cognitive stimulation) at 4.5 years and children's academic achievement (as measured by performance on standardized reading and mathematics tests) at age 6 (NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003).