The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2007) categorizes child care as the following: center care, provided by an unrelated adult at a childcare center, preschool, afterschool program; home-based care, provided by a relative in the child’s own home or the relative’s home; family child care provided by an unrelated adult in their own home; and nonrelative care, provided by an unrelated adult in the child’s own home (e.g., babysitter). Child care, as defined by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (2006), refers to “any care provided on a regular basis by someone other than the child’s mother” and “children in any type of care for fewer than 10 hours a week were considered to be in exclusive maternal care” (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2006, p. …show more content…
As briefly mentioned previously, mothers have dealt with a long history of criticism and disapproval for working and leaving their child(ren) under the care of another individual, organization, or agency. Opponents of daycare argue that children enrolled in daycare have been negatively impacted by the care they receive from individuals other than the