Child Care and Child Development
Subtitle: Results from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Published: December 23, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9781593852870
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Psychology; Children's Studies; Developmental - Child; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Psychology & Psychiatry / Developmental Psychology; Developmental - General
First sentence: At the end of 1987, in response to a scientific debate about the important public health questions surrounding maternal employment and the growing use of child care, especially when it begins in infancy, Dr. Duane Alexander, Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), decided to invest public resources in a collaborative study between multiple grantees and NICHD aimed at answering questions about the effects of child care on the development of infants and toddlers.