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This paper is about what effects daycare has on children, the benefits and the drawbacks. It argues that children need a parent, someone that loves them, to be with them most of the time and that children do better at home than in a program.

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"Research has found that children who go to daycare everyday and have to stay for long hours often become aggressive and don't mind adults well (Weitzman, 2006). They become uncooperative. Many of them get clingy because they are insecure. One author says that the children suffer "psychic distress" when they are constantly separated from their parents. Their health suffers because of so many children being all in one small space. Lice and ringworm are problems and other infectious diseases that children catch in daycare that they would not be exposed to at home. One study (Kay, 2005) showed stress levels are higher in daycare children who have higher levels of cortisol in their bloodstreams. There is also anecdotal evidence (like my grandmother's "evidence") that children in daycare bite each other in epidemic proportions. Biting is animal behavior. It implies a need for self-protection. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Kay, J. (2005). The mommy wars. American Jewish Committee, 199 (2) 82-86.
• Olfman, S. (2003). Daycare and imagination. International Reading Association, 48 (6), 535.
• Weitzman, J. (2006). The impact of home daycare on the biological children of providers: Case examples of unintended consequences. Retrieved 7 December 2008 from Expanded Academic ASAP database via Gale.
• Zaslow, M. J. and Tout, K. (2002). Child-care quality matters: The whole point of the marriage debate is healthier children. The American Prospect, 13 (7), 49.

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