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Literature Review on Daycare's Positive and Negative Aspects

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researched documentation on contemporary issues. Here, Lopata (1993) relays the opinion of the renown Dr. Penelope Leach who contends that daycare cannot provide the one-on-one interaction that infants crave. Also,  Dr. Burton White, Dr. William Sears, and Dr. T. Berry Brazelton agree that the one-on-one relationship between infant and parent is important (1993). Leach claims that the idea of  high quality care is moot because when mothers devote time to work, they have fewer hours with their children and the parents prolonged absences can interfere with the bonding process  (1993). This seems particularly true in respect to infants. Hence, older children left in daycare will not experience this problem which is peculiar to babies who have greater needs.  In the same article, Waldorf educator Rahima Baldwin makes the claim: "The baby in its first year of life is still totally connected to the mothers vital energy and  nurtured by it. Full-time daycare is a shock for the baby and can cause a tearing of the etheric sheath surrounding the baby " (Lopata, 1993, p.106). Also, some  research has revealed that daycare infants will react immediately to extended parental absences and will cry more than other infants upon separation from their mothers (1993). Toddlers who  spent their infancy in full-time daycare, displayed less enthusiasm, and were less likely to follow their mothers instructions, than those who were not raised in daycare (1993). They were  also found to be less persistent and had a tendency to throw more temper tantrums (1993). Young children who had not gone through the attachment process with their mothers  during infancy would become overly dependent on their preschool teachers (1993). Further, daycare children tend to have poorer peer relationships and are more difficult to discipline; they may have