Center-based care and insensitive parenting may have lasting effects
Thursday, May 14, 2009 - 23:49
in Psychology & Sociology
A growing number of American children are enrolled in child care and questions remain about how these settings may affect them in both positive and negative ways. A new study published in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Child Development finds that early interpersonal experiences--center-based child care and parenting--may have independent and lasting developmental effects.