Drop the hyperbole!

New childcare research is not as categorical as it appears

August 12, 2010 | by Andrea Mrozek , Manager of Research and Communications, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada
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Endnotes

  1. Bagnall, J. (August 9, 2010). Drop the guilt trip: Daycare doesn’t hurt your kids. The Province, p. A16. Retrieved August 11, 2010 from http://www2.canada.com/theprovince/news/editorial/story.html?id=dc098256-87c2-48bb-b538-64c1044bce65
    McLaren, L. (August 6, 2010). Ditch the guilt, working moms: The kids are all right. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved August 11, 2010 from http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/ditch-the-guiltworking-moms-the-kids-are-all-right/article1664820/ Janet Bagnall wrote about the August 2010 American release, while Leah McLaren referred to a 2009 study from England.
  2. Belsky, J., Vandell, D., Burchinal, M., Clarke-Stewart, K. A., McCartney, K., Owen, M., et al. (2007). Are there long-term effects of early child care? Child Development, 78, pp. 681-701.
  3. Brooks-Gunn, J., Han, W., & Waldfogel, J. (August 2010). First-year maternal employment and child development in the first 7 years. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 75(2), 1-145.
  4. Ibid, p. ix.
  5. Ibid, p. 15.
  6. Ibid, p. 18.
  7. Ibid, p. 63.
  8. Belsky, J., Burchinal, M., Lowe Vandell, D., Steinberg, L., Vandergrift, N. (May/June 2010). Do effects of early child care extend to age 15 years? Results from the NICHD study of early child care and youth development. Child Development, pp. 737-756.
  9. Japel, C., Tremblay, R., Côté, S. (December 2005). Quality Counts! Assessing the Quality of Daycare Services Based on the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development. IRPP Choices, Institute for Research on Public Policy, vol. 11, no. 5. Retrieved August 11, 2010 from http://www.irpp.org/choices/archive/vol11no5.pdf