Daycare: The Effects And What To Look For

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for in a daycare for these children and will it have any effects on the child as it grows. This paper will describe many things that studies as well as people say should be in a daycare. Also it will discuss the possibilities of long term effects on the child in the future.
There has been an enumerated amount of studies done on daycare’s, some had positive results while others had negative results. So many different studies could really confuse a person. The fact is according to Adelson (1997, 53) that with the right amount of love and care “daycare is a perfectly adequate substitute for a mother’s care and in some cases may even be superior”. In order to be superior however the daycare must meet or exceed many standards or qualities. Perhaps the biggest is the state guidelines for ratio of child to teacher. This is dependent on the age of the child: the older the child the higher the ratio.

Age Staff/Child
6 weeks – 18 months 1 : 4
18 months – 2 ½ years 1 : ...

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term effects on the child are another common worry of parents. “Will I not be a good parent to my child when it grows up”, “Will he or she feel neglected or left out of something by me working and not spending time with them” and many other question will get tossed through the parents head. The problems with questions like this is there are no definite answers that are concrete for every child. Even with all the studies done there are still so many different answers. One such example is that Adelson (1997) suggests children who’ve been in daycare for a number of years may be inattentive and more prone to violence such as hitting or kicking. Where as Brownlee (1998, p. 35) ...

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