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What We Know About Childcare (Developing Child)

What We Know About Childcare (Developing Child)

by Alison Clarke - Stewart (Author)

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    Hardcover 2005

    $92.67
Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 03 Jun 2005
ISBN 10: 0674017498
ISBN 13: 9780674017498

Media Reviews
What We Know About Childcare...offers an exhaustive, evenhanded account of what the latest research proves--and what it disproves--about childcare's impact on children. -- Pamela Kruger Child 20050601 Clarke-Stewart and Allhusen have amassed wonderful data and detailed descriptions of the social, psychological and political issues that continue to surround childcare in the U.S. in this new millennium. Engaging such a broad audience in these issues is a difficult, but worthy task. Their effort certainly deserves much praise. -- Julie Cooper Altman Families in Society
Author Bio
Alison Clarke-Stewart was Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior and Associate Dean of Research at the University of California, Irvine. Virginia D. Allhusen is Research Associate in Psychology and Social Behavior and a senior researcher in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development at the University of California, Irvine.