Abstract Since the increase in single parent families and dual income families, daycare has become a necessity for some households. The paper shows that through many sources and scientific tests, it has been proven that daycare has no negative effects on a childs well-being, and can actually help develop some necessary social skills for interaction with other children. The paper discusses the history of daycare, gives a contemporary definition and then shows the arguments for and against the use of daycare.
From the Paper "In addition, there are advantages to each specific type of daycare. In-home care provides continuity and stability, as the child stays in the home all day. The child will also be able to follow his or her own schedule for meals and naps, and not deviate from the weekdays to the weekends (Berezin 13). Family daycare offers a comfortable place for a child to stay all day, while away from his or her house. The family daycare can also offer a small group of playmates for the child (Berezin 14). Childcare centers usually have on staff professionals that have studied development. In addition, there are plenty of other children at centers who can play with and socialize with the child. Finally, the childcare center will offer more of a range of activities that may not be available at home (Berezin 16)."
Abstract Within this paper, an examination of factors related to daycare for preschool children in the U.S. is presented. As working parents have increasingly had to rely on daycare as an option for child care and as a means for insuring that they were able to maintain employment and wages for their families, the information provided offers an analysis of daycare services and their potential influence on developmental outcomes for children. The paper discusses current findings on daycare in relation to conceptualizations of child development, including Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, Mahler's individuation/separation theory, Montessori's theory of environment/activities theory, and Bandura's social learning theory.
From the Paper "According to information provided by the US Bureau of Census, between 1977 and 1994, there has been an increase in the number of working mothers using daycare centers for their preschoolers, from 13 percent to 29 percent. On the basis of data from the 1997 National Survey on America's Families, as reported by Capizzano, Adams and Sonenstein (2000), nationwide a large percentage (76 percent) of preschool children with employed mothers are regularly cared for by someone other than their parents. For more than half of preschool children with employed mothers, the primary child care provider is not related to the child. Thirty-two percent of children are in center-based child care arrangements, while about half as many (16 percent) are in family child care. A relatively small percentage of children (6 percent) are regularly cared for by a baby-sitter or nanny in the child's home. "
Tags: development, Montessori, Bandura, erikson, social
This paper is a business plan for EMSDS, Emergency Medical Daycare Services, a part-time daycare program that meets the challenging scheduling needs of firefighters and EMS professionals with similar scheduling limitations.
Abstract This paper explains that the firefighter daycare center will provide a staff of qualified professionals, all of whom are certified with Early Childhood Education (ECE) diplomas, and, above all else, flexible and affordable. The author points out that the daycare will aspire to attract clientele, gain corporate and community sponsorship in an effort to reduce costs, and provide adequate services and seek out volunteers to help manage operating costs. The paper concludes that, in the event that EMSDS does not find adequate resources with which to conduct business in its first year, it will postpone arrangements to open approximately one year later. Charts.
From the Paper "The daycare industry is growing. The childcare services industry is one of the most rapidly growing markets, expanding in part due to accommodate the increasingly high demand for quality services. In 1999 the market for childcare services topped out at more than $3.5 billion. The market is expected to surpass $60 billion in revenues in the upcoming years, in part due to the fact that both parents typically are now working in the labor force. "Child care expenses by households rose 15.7% between 1986 and 1999 alone". "Formal daycare service providers in 1999 earned revenues of approximately $1.8 billion, with expenses toping out at approximately $1.7 billion, leaving more than $96 million in profits for daycare providers". The profit margin is approximately 5.3%."
Abstract This paper provides an overview of the field of family daycare. It covers various aspects, such as the advantages of this form of childcare and the challenges faced by those who run family daycare.
Paper Outline:
Introduction
Advantages Family Daycare/Disadvantages
Reasons Parents Prefer
Challenges Facing
Characteristics of Good Care
Child Care Programs of Excellence
Future Trends
Implications
References
From the Paper "Other challenges facing family day care providers include parents' perception about the type of service being provided. To change this, family day care providers can work towards ensuring that they are adequately licensed, and attempt to acquire additional training in childhood development (CCSTARS, 2005). Another challenge facing daycare providers is the fact that state standards are often changing, which can make compliance with state regulations challenging."
Abstract This paper reviews and discusses the issues relating to the placement of babies and young children into daycare. The paper examines the association between aggressive behavior and daycare among children from three different perspectives. The paper also discusses Erik Erikson's stage theory of psychosocial development and the operant conditioning theory of B.F. Skinner.
Outline:
The Issue
Erik Erikson's Perspective
Skinner's Perspective
Conclusion
From the Paper "How can daycare environments be improved upon in order to decrease the stress experienced by children and further decrease the development of aggressive behavior? Dettling, Parker, Lane, Sebane, and Gunnar (2000) used patterns of cortisol production in young children to assess whether levels were influenced by situational factors involved in daycare such as size of the group, adult-to-child ratio, separation from parents, and quality of stimulation and attention from the child-care provider. The results of this study indicated that cortisol patterns among the children over the span of a day correlated significantly with the quantity of stimulation and attention provided by the child-care provider. Also, cortisol levels among children that were more emotionally negative and those with less self-control, such as aggressive children, also dramatically increased throughout the day. Overall, this study further reinforces how quality of daycare is key in determining the stress levels experienced by the children (Dettling et al., 2000)."
Abstract This paper explains that Starland Daycare will offer a full-range of childcare services for infants and toddlers and after school care for older children. The author points out that the Queens area is a growth market with 50% of the population working adults. The paper reports that the SWOT analysis reveals that the market upside justifies this start-up and that marketing initiatives can overcome parent reservations regarding start-up childcare centers without an established reputation. The author concludes that the competitive analysis shows that the market currently has many childcare centers; however, the market demand has outpaced the industry's ability to meet this demand. The paper concludes that Starland Daycare has an excellent market entry opportunity provided it sites itself appropriately. The paper includes a chart showing a competitor profile matrix.
Table of Contents:
Executive Summary
Situation Analysis
Service Overview
SWOT Analysis
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
Competitive Analysis
From the Paper "The greatest threat in the childcare industry is the regulatory apparatus within which the industry's competitors must operate. There are federal and state guidelines and provisions that must be following as well as safety and health requirements of the local county and city offices which must be complied with. These regulations limit the number of children that a center can serve as well as the type of child in that the care and service arrangements for infants and toddlers are different than those for older children."
Abstract The role of the daycare director is complex, including a number of responsibilities and duties pertaining to the management of the center, the staff, and the enrolled children. This presentation includes a look at two areas of responsibility, the paperwork involved and the role as a leader.
From the Paper "The director of a daycare center functions as a leader for all involved. Duties are described as including the following: enrolling new children, hiring assistants, maintaining all of the accounting and bookkeeping information, creating lesson plans, teaching the classes, driving for outside events, cooking meals, creating fund raisers, and attending community meetings. The director functions as a leader for the children, their parents and families, the community, and the staff (Job Profiles, 2001)."
Abstract This paper argues that extended hours at daycare facilities are essential to working parents in this day and age, where the 9-5 job has gone the way of the single-income, two-parent family. The writer asserts that, in order to give hard-working parents at least some of the respect shown by European nations to their working parents, it is necessary to meet the demand for 24-hour care created by our own desire for a 24-hour service economy. The writer further maintains that daycare can provide the benefits to children's psychological well-being. Thus increased access to daycare will be a boon, not a bane, for American society. The writer strongly argues that it is imperative that extended hours become a priority at daycare facilities all over the nation.
From the Paper "In some nations, the federal government has recognized the value of treating daycare as a national priority and expanded parental leave as well. The government creates a daycare system that works with people's working needs. In France, to take one example, according to a 2006 report by CBS news, all French families, regardless of income, are entitled to three years paid maternity leave with a guarantee that mother's job will be there for her when she returns, followed by access subsidized child care. At very least, creating more U.S. facilities that offer extended hours is an important first step to provide more accessible daycare to families in a nation such as ours, where benefits to parents with small children are few and far between. In the U.S., federal law entitles some mothers to twelve weeks of unpaid leave, depending on the circumstances of their employment, while some mothers receive no leave; if for example, they are working two part-time jobs to pay the bills. Yet one hundred and sixty three countries around the globe offer at least some daycare subsidies to new mothers regardless of income or employment status. "
A examination of the impact of daycare on children and their parents, including children who have been placed in their daycare settings at a very early age.
Abstract This paper discuses daycare and the possible correlation between parenting skills, or lack of parenting skills of early placement of children in daycare settings. It also looks at the impact on the children themselves and examines whether early placement effects their growth and development socially.
From the Paper "One can take one hundred parenting skills surveys and one might find one hundred levels, styles and sets of parenting skills on any given day. Parenting skills are as individual as those who implement them but there are a few basics by which the world can measure capability and success. The basic premise of parenting skills is to keep the child safe from harm and teach them to become productive, moralistic adults in the world. Whether or not the parenting skills are tied to daycare entrance has not been looked at to closely but in looking at peripheral clues and situations one can infer that there is no correlation, with the exception of the early intervention settings."
Tags: child, development, teacher, caregivers, learning, development
Abstract This paper presents statistics showing the high costs of childcare, especially as it affects single-parent families. It argues that the need for childcare to be affordable and high-quality. It also examines the plight of impoverished women, who often have to use informal childcare arrangements in order to make ends meet. The paper calls for a balance between affordability of daycare and quality of daycare to be achieved.
From the Paper "Over the past two decades, perhaps the most marked change in family structure has been the increase in single-parent families (Kirby). In 1990, the number of single-parent families with children under the age of 18 was 9.7 million, compared to 3.8 million in 1970 (Kirby). Moreover, children today are more likely to live in a singe-parent family for reasons other than the death of a parent for the first time in history (Kirby). Approximately 40 percent of children under the age of 18 will experience parental separation or divorce, and roughly one in four children are born to an unmarried mother (Kirby). Furthermore, 90 percent of single-parent families are headed by females, while single mothers with dependent children have the highest rate of poverty across all demographic groups (Kirby). Some 60 percent of American children living in mother-only families are impoverished, compared with only 11 percent of two-parent families, with the rate even higher among African American single-parent families, in which two out of three children are poor (Kirby). "
Abstract This paper examines how the individualists point of view in American society effects childcare today in terms of public funding and available quality care. It illustrates how other western societies value children as a communal responsibility and therefore provide public funding for the future generations through quality daycare. The paper describes the current economic demands for two income families and further education. It offers research, statistics and examines the Troy State University marketing strategy by providing childcare for its students.
Table of Contents
Abstract
Introduction
Demographic Considerations
Quality and Availability
Research Design and Procedures
Findings
Conclusions and Recommendations
References
From the Paper "In the United States, childcare is most usually thought of as something that is entirely the responsibility of a family. This is based (although very rarely explicitly) on a view of society in which the individual is the most important unit. Because the United States is a society that emphasizes individual responsibility, there is relatively little public policy devoted to communal caregiving. This is different from other countries in which, for example, childcare is seen as something that the entire community is responsible for. This belief is based on the acknowledgement that not only is the raising of a child in many ways simply too much work for one family to take on alone but also the acknowledgement that each child embodies the future of the whole society and so must be well raised. Thus childcare is seen as the responsibility of the state.
Many Americans believe that childcare should be carried out primarily by the parents, and even more by the mother. But this is simply not a tenable idea in the 21st century. Economic concerns force most adults to work and women as well as men wish to have rewarding and useful careers. This is especially true of those individuals seeking higher education."
Tags: america, children, care, daycare, tro, state, public, funding, family, educaion, income, women, role
Abstract This paper provides statistics which define the problem of poverty in Nashville. The paper shows how the government of Nashville has been trying to put a quantitative gauge on economic deprivation and so determining who is eligible for social assistance. This paper provides background information on poverty in Nashville and looks at factors such as food, daycare and medical care which are controlled to attempt to assist those in need. The paper also discusses the factors which effected poverty in the 1990's and the effects of welfare reform on poverty. It then compares the state of poverty in Memphis to that of Nashville.
From the Paper "Who is poor in America? The federal administration answered that question, beginning in the late 1960s, with a yearly poverty count. Now imprinted each September, politicians and pundits alike await the government's numbers. The figure of the September statistics and the interpretive stories accompanying their release often influences the election discussion in November.
The Government of Nashville has been trying to put a quantitative gauge on economic deprivation, ever since Lyndon Johnson's ?War on Poverty,? even though most people recognize that poverty measurement is subjective and not entirely scientific. The administration poverty line is used to conclude eligibility in Medicaid, food stamps, cash welfare and numerous other means-tested support programs (8). The poverty counts are used to measure the efficiency of government anti-poverty programs and the economic well being of at-risk groups of families and individuals. In proposals to set minimum wages or living wage mandates, poverty income thresholds are being used increasingly."
Introduction
During the last few decades, there has been a vast shift in the way young children have been cared for during their first several years of life. Along with the increase in the number of working mothers, there has been a change in the form of day care utilized by these mothers. Dawson (1990) noted that during the period just from 1970-1988, the percentage of young children cared for in licensed day care centers in the United States increased from 3.5% to 22%.
As a result, it has become increasingly important both to look at the conditions in these day care centers and to look at the consequences of day care center attendance for young children. The .."
Abstract Discusses the cognitive and psychosocial development of infants and todders who attend daycare. Examines recent research studies on the topic that identify characteristics of a good child-care situation. Need for high quality care. Complexity of the issue due to complex variables outside the childcare setting that effect the development of young chilldren.
From the Paper "Introduction
The topic of this paper is the effects of childcare on the cognitive and psychosocial development of infants and toddlers. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 65 percent of mothers with children below the age of six are working. The Children's Defense Fund estimates that as many as six million infants and toddlers go to childcare centers. Thus, it is little wonder that over the last 15 years, many studies have been conducted to analyze the impact of childcare on the development of young children (Patten, 1999, p. 1). In this paper, the literature dealing with this topic over the last four years will be summarized and evaluated for their strengths and weaknesses.
Abstract This paper takes the position that it is important to retain preschool children in the home rather than placing them in daycare centers. The paper discusses links between child care and child outcomes. The paper also looks at the background of the shift to preschool day care and the issues and risks involved.
