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Bowlby said "separation in infancy causes serious emotional and cognitive consequences" Evaluate the research evidence into day care's effects on social and cognitive development Bowlby's maternal deprivation hypothesis suggests that separation during the child's first 7 months - 3 years could cause serious damage in the progress of social and cognitive development. This suggests that day care could have negative effects on both. However there is much evidence to suggest otherwise. For example, that of Andersson and the Headstart programme. There have been many different studies suggesting that day care holds back cognitive development in children. For example, in 2000, Ruhm surveyed 4,000 babies and found that if mothers worked in the first year of a child's life (and therefore leaving the child in day care), 3 and 4 year olds had worse verbal skills. He also found that 5 and 6 year olds had worse maths and reading skills if their...

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