· Cognitive development in infants who experienced high quality child care were seen to take those qualities they picked up from their child care throughout their life into their adult year, where they achieved higher IQ scores, better employment, less contact with the law and a better education. (Duncan, 2003) At this stage, there is no sign that putting infants into any form of child care is bad for them, emphasising that a child’s cognitive development and social development improve throughout their infant years and carry on throughout their first few years in school. (Duncan, 2003)
• According to this article, infants who came from low income families, achieved more from out of the home care even though there cognitive development was not as good …show more content…
(Duncan, 2003)Child care has shown to cause infants to have insecure attachment and avoidance towards their mothers as they associate child care with rejection from their primary caregivers. (Child Care Research Network NICHD, 1997) This point has been backed up by, (Barnett, 1995), saying that some infant’s that go into child care, whether it’s of low or high quality, experience separation anxiety and symptoms such as maternal