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A large proportion of preschool children now spend part of their week in day care, with many consequences for the child. Examine the truth of this statement. Emily Ashford Day care is often seen as a modern day norm so that parents can go back to work or so that they can have a rest for one or more days a week. Bowlby's maternal deprivation hypothesis states that deprivation of attachment during a critical period of development would result in permanent damage. There are factors of day care which are important to development, stimulation, which affects cognitive development, attachments to substitute caregivers, affects cognitive, emotional and social development; also, interaction with other peers affects social development. Bus and van Ijzendoorn (1988) believed that day care may harm cognitive development because of bond disruption between caregiver and child. They found that children who were securely attached at age 2 showed more interest in written...

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