Re: Career Minded Parents and Child Storage Facilities
Here’s a study that looked into the childs cognitive ability and the time spent with children.
Type of care may impact kids’ success
06:16 AEST Tue Aug 23 2005
AAP
Working single mothers who rely on their family, friends, or other informal child care providers to look after their children during work hours may, in doing so, negatively influence their child’s mental development, new study findings in the US suggest.
This negative effect of a mother’s reduced contact time with her child may be offset, however, by enrolling the child in pre-school or some other type of formal centre-based care instead, according to the study’s authors.
“I would say that the crucial thing to take from the paper is that separation from the mother can be detrimental for children, but mothers can partially offset this by choosing the appropriate type of daycare,” Professor Raquel Bernal, of Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, said
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