Child Care Research Paper

While forms of childcare have existed long before the development of formal daycare agencies, the first known daycare for children in the United States was established as the Infant School Society of Boston in 1828. Child care encompasses various types of care provided to the child, such as care provided by an agency, care provided by relatives or other family members, care provided at their own home through the use of a baby sitter, care provided at someone’s home where other children are also present, and so forth. Although the primary focus of the paper is to discuss child care agencies, the paper will also elaborate briefly on at-home child care and the other forms of care as mentioned previously. Literature review and research for the …show more content…
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