What Day Care Forms and Features Mean for Children's Development.

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A sample of 80 families with a 2or 3-year-old child in day care in one of four popular forms (baby sitter in the child's own home, family day care, part-time nursery program, and full-time day care center program) participated in a study of the effects of forms of care on children's development. Parents and caretakers were interviewed, and observations were made of children's physical and social environments. Findings of these investigations revealed differences in the quality of life provided by the different forms of care. Each child was then observed in and out of the home setting and was administered standardized tests. Data suggested eight measures reflecting developmental competencies: autonomy, social reciprocity with mother, social knowledge, sociability with adult stranger, sociability with an unfamiliar peer, negative behavior to peer, social competence at home, and cognitive ability. Different day care forms were found to be associated with patterns of competence in the chil

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