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A fascinating example of this in practice is Dr. Edward Tronick's Still Face Experiment.
It shows what happens when an attentive mum ceases to respond to her baby. It is a powerful warning of what can happen if an adult in charge of a baby doesn't really bother. You can see and hear the child's stress level rise within seconds.
High levels of group care before the age of two have been associated with increased anti-social behaviour. A recent study found young children cared for by their mothers did significantly better in developmental tests than those in any other sort of care.
Daily Mail
Using the "Still Face" Experiment, in which a mother denies her baby attention for a short period of time, Tronick describes how prolonged lack of attention can move an infant from good socialization, to periods of bad but repairable socialization. In "ugly" situations the child does not receive any chance to return to the good, and may become stuck.
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John Carnochan, a senior Scottish policeman and world-famous expert on violence, linked the terrible things he's dealt with all his professional life to the inadequate care babies get.
Daily Mail
Originally posted by PutAQuarterIn
Stay at home moms are looked down on these days. trust me on that, some people think I'm lazy.
“Most women who are going back to work have a job, not a career. They are doing soulless, heartless jobs, such as working on a cash till at a supermarket.”
Mothers in the home ‘being forced into workforce’
The scientific PROOF that sending mothers out to work harms children
Originally posted by acmpnsfal
The title of this thread is sexist, it should be parents not mothers. Some fathers stay at home with the kids or could stay at home with the kids instead of working. Nice try though.
Originally posted by Perhaps
There are a multitude of variables that occur prior to conception, during gestation, post birth and throughout those critical formative years that contribute to a child's development.
Originally posted by stumason
I've got 3 kids all of whom have had both of us go out to work and none of them could be called stupid, socially awkward or unhappy. My eldest daughter went to a childminders from 6 months and a nursery from 18 months until she went to school and she has to be the most socially well developed of the three.
Originally posted by stumason
And, despite your protestations, the title of this thread is sexist.
Originally posted by ollncasino
A child minder can give children the interaction they require. Not all do. Many are more interested in talking with their colleagues about the soap opera they watched last night .
Originally posted by ollncasino
You think so?
Originally posted by ollncasino
I'm not sure that that a headline that stated
"The scientific PROOF that sending mothers and fathers or other primary care giver out to work harms children unless a grandparent, a child minder, next door neighbor, auntie, uncle or other person, of either sex, including members of the LGBT community, gives the child sufficient interaction"
has quite the same ring to it.
Originally posted by ollncasino
Still, one can't use the term 'mother' to denote the primary care giver of children under 3. Not in these politically correct times...
Originally posted by stumason
Hence why I said "both parents" to replace "mother". Would have worked quite nicely and didn't need to be quite as long as your ever-so-witty reply
Originally posted by stumason
Yes, as an active Father who hates it when the media focusses on mothers and ignores dads, I most certainly do.
Originally posted by stumason
Your are simply displaying continued sexism and sexual stereotyping by assuming that mothers are the "primary care giver of children under 3". It could also be a Grandparent, an Aunt or your live in Transexual Man-Girl...
Originally posted by my1percent
I personally disagree with babies being put in child care especially a week after being born then left there all day ,how is that child supposed to bond with it's parents.
Why have a child if your gonna dump it with strangers , go without all that material crap after all the most important thing in life are our relationships.