Sentences with phrase «quality child care arrangements»

Without help, many families can face the untenable choice of not working or leaving their children in unsafe, unstable, or poor quality child care arrangements.

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So here we are in 2006, with parents piecing together a patchwork of arrangements to care for the kids while they're at work, and with only the richest having access to high - quality child care.

On the other hand, when combined with social and economic stressors at home, inadequate ECEC arrangements (poor quality child care, long hours, and instability) represent a double - threat to children's attachment security.

Goals of PSSF are to prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families, improve the quality of care and services to children and their families, and ensure permanency for children by reuniting them with their parents, by adoption or by another permanent living arrangement.

Contrary to meta - analytic findings of the earlier literature that focused only on the effects of the amount of care provided without adequately controlling for selection effects, the NICHD Study found that a number of features of child care (the amount of child care, age of entry into care, and the quality and stability of child care) were unrelated to the security of infant — mother attachments or to an increased likelihood of avoidant attachments, except when mothers provided less sensitive parenting of their infant.11 For the children who received less sensitive maternal care, extended experience with child care, lower - quality child care, and more changes in child care arrangements were each associated with an increased likelihood of developing an insecure attachment with their mothers.

Unless child care quality is very poor, or the mother is insensitive to a child's needs, non-parental child care does not appear to undermine the security of the infant — mother attachment per se, but there are indications that this relationship may be more vulnerable when the mother herself provides less sensitive care and her child experiences poorer quality care, more changes in arrangements or many hours of care.

In addition to improving access to high - quality programs for children, the proposal would save families thousands of dollars per year and facilitate child care arrangements that support financial security for working families.

A patchwork of informal care arrangements can deprive children of the educational and developmental benefits associated with high - quality child care.

Yet what the findings actually revealed was a «dual - risk» phenomenon.17 Although the strongest predictor of insecurity at 15 months of age was, as expected, insensitive mothering (observed at ages 6 and 15 months), this effect was amplified if any one of three distinct child - care conditions characterized the child's experience across the first 15 months of life: (a) averaging more than 10 hours per week in any type of care, irrespective of quality; (b) enrolment in more than a single child - care arrangement; and (c) exposure to low quality care.

When the mother - infant relationship is compromised, children are more likely to become insecure if child care arrangements are poor quality, of long duration, or involve multiple transitions between settings.

Regardless of whether infants and young children are in care of high or low quality, or have begun care from an early age, have experienced many or few transitions in care arrangements, or are out of the home for extended hours, the security of infant - mother attachment is primarily guided by the sensitivity of maternal care.

In addition, it is imperative that policies address the need to expand the availability and affordability of high - quality, affordable child care services (both centre - and home - based) so that parents have peace of mind when they return to work and children benefit from stimulating and sensitive non-parental caregiving arrangements.

A profile approach to child care quality, quantity, and type of setting: Parent selection of infant child care arrangements