Paid Childcare

The purpose of this research is to explore the benefits of onsite childcare for big corporations. More specifically answering the questions of “What is cost effective for business owners to provide onsite childcare?” and “Will providing childcare for working parents alleviate their stress; and increase productivity on their job?” The review of this literature will discuss the stress of childcare on working parents; the advantages and disadvantages of onsite childcare; the benefits of corporations providing onsite child care. The research methods that would be conducive to complete this research would be surveys and separate focus groups between employees and their employers. The literature review will explain each topic in detail

One of the largest social controversies of the current time are the parental pressures attached to whether or not a child should attend daycare. While many parents struggle with this decision, others do not have the luxury of choice; many questions are raised asking if it is beneficial or harmful for infants and young children to attend daycare, spending the majority of their waking hours with caregivers other than their parents. There are of course many opinions and studies regarding this issue. As with any controversial topic there is no right or wrong answers for the masses. The majority of studies conducted all seem to have similar results. This is an issue and dilemma of such personal magnitude that it should not only be regarded

In life it is healthy to make lasting relationships, and to socialize with other people. It is important that children are given the opportunity to be around other children so that they can acquire vital communication and social skills. “Even with siblings, you can’t match the opportunities for social interaction that a child has at day care in the home. Your child will be placed in a class with children close in age and have opportunities to play and negotiate with peers each day” (Cerbasi). My daughter is 3 years old and she is an only child. Day care is something that I would love to put our child in, because for just even a couple hours a week she can be around other children and have a socialization experience she will emotionally need while being around others her own age. This is a valuable experience that we can’t give her at home. Doctor Heins suggests, "Play is very important, but the serious aspect is that we have to get along in a social structure" (Burgess). For parents with only one child, day care can be a great option for a place where their child will be able to socialize with other children their own age, enabling the

Daycare has become a controversy because of the great quantity of advantages and disadvantages that it involves. While a very large number of parents have to rely on child care centers because of career ambitions or financial needs that only their jobs can fulfill, most child psychiatrists believe that the ideal growing environment for an infant is at home with the family. The problem is that choosing the right caregiver, a good substitute for the parents, is very hard, and the consequences of a wrong decision can be very detrimental to the child’s personality development. This choice depends on many factors like culture, education and especially income. In fact, the financial availability plays the most

Are you debating whether to send your child to daycare or to be a stay at home parent? Parents always face this question when their children reach a certain age. Nearly three-quarters of American mothers with children at home are employed. Many parents pick daycare over being a stay at home parent. Many people don’t know what daycare actually is. Daycare is a facility that takes care of children while their parents are at work. Stay at home parents don’t normally work, and stay at home with their children for most of the day. The ones that do work, work at home. It is very clear which one is better for children development. Daycare is better than stay at home parents for children development.

A child’s first 12 months is described as being a “critical” time in it’s development, and nature versus nurture begins to take place in its development from the earliest of stages. According to Christopher Ruhm, “environmental factors are also likely to be significant in the formation of learning skills, self-esteem, and emotional security” (Ruhm, 2007). If mother’s are forced to go back into the workforce due to lack of funds or job security, this most likely means that their child will have to be placed into a daycare of some sort, unless a family member is able to care for the child while the parent is away. While daycares may aid in cognitive development and social development due to the nature in which day cares are run, a mother may be compelled to raise the child in their own way, and provide the environment in which they would like to have their children raised. Although the difference is small between children who were home with their mothers versus at daycares, if a mother is able to be home and commit her time to raising her child, it has been shown that the child will in return perform better in a variety of areas. According to the Ruhm, “maternal employment during a child’s first year appeared to negatively affect subsequent cognitive test scores and was associated with increases in behavioural problems” (Ruhm,

Researchers have found that 90 percent of parents using full-service, on-site day care centers increased concentration and productivity on the job.(Finn)

It is likely that children who being sent to childcare centers from the early age seem to be more mature than who are not, as these preschoolers can cope with the situation without familiars nearby. Putting kids in dynamic class settings also help them to adjust themselves to studying environment, which would be an incentive advantage over other kids in primary school. Moreover, in childcare centers, teachers will help children to cultivate

Among the membership the Association for Health Professionals, the majority of us must juggle the complicated balance between work and our families. If you are not included, then you are probably in the planning stages of starting a family or have a close friend or family member with the same struggles. In fact, there are currently 30 million working families in the United States (Stoltzfus, 2015). While significant strides have been made in fostering a more diverse family friendly environment, many employers of those we represent are still lagging strongly behind. Only 39 percent of workers have access to employer-sponsored dependent care reimbursement accounts, and only 11 percent have access to workplace-funded childcare (Stoltzfus, 2015).

Childcare are regular, monetary arrangements that temporarily provide caregiver’s to a child in the absence of their parent/s, whether within the home or in centre-based environments (Howes & Hamilton, 1992; Howes, Phillips, & Whitebook, 1992; Merz et al., 2015; Berry, Blair, & Granger, 2016.). Research has suggested that childcare has had a negative impact on a child’s psychological and physiological development due to rises in their cortisol levels during childcare hours (Badanes, Dmitrieva, & Watamura, 2012; Lumian et al., 2015; Berry, Blair, & Granger, 2016). On the other hand, other studies have suggested that childcare assists opportunities of growth in executive functions (Merz et al., 2015) and social development (Connell & Prinz, 2002). However, there are many asterisks that come with these findings as quality, type, time spent, and ratio of teacher to child in the childcare must also be considered (Howes & Hamilton, 1992; Howes, Phillips, & Whitebook,

In the article, the participants were 451 families whose children were tested in 1998 and 2000, using methods in which the child was assessed and interviews with their mother were recorded (Loeb). The study was based of a previous study in which mother’s and children who were included in a welfare-to-work initiative named Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Loeb). The studies conclude that children, who were enrolled in childcare, although it was poor childcare, had better social skills than the control group who were cared for by family members (Loeb). The study also concluded that in comparison to children in childcare centers, children cared for their family had more behavioral issues

55% of American mothers now return to work by the time their children are one years old -- out of either financial, professional, or personal necessity. In today’s society, there are concerns as to whether attending daycare during infancy produces negative or positive effects on the development of children. Many of these concerns are influenced by the fear that separating an infant from its mother may cause emotional harm to the child or disrupt the mother-infant bond. No study finds that children of employed mothers suffer solely because their mothers are working. Research has shown that mothers who work spend as much time playing with their babies as do mothers without outside jobs (Huston &

There are many different reasons as to why parents rather keep their child home than enroll them into a centre-based childcare facility. Also, many different arguments as to which form of care is more beneficial to the child, homecare or daycare. There is a reliance on informal childcare from partners, friends, and family that mothers who return to work soon after giving birth depend on (Zagel et al., 2013). Zagel et al., (2013) states such informal childcare has detrimental effects on the children whereas daycares have beneficial effects on children. According to Lowry (2011), children are usually put in childcare because both parents are working. Compared to co-parents, lone mothers who worked full time were less likely to use informal childcare

A stark reality facing many parents is that quality daycare is hard to find or too expensive. Quality daycare includes a well-trained staff that serves children in small groups. This allows for successful interactions between the caregiver and child. These interactions may be related to cognitive functioning and language development. Preschoolers that have experienced positive interactions given at quality daycare demonstrated better language skills and cognitive functioning than preschoolers who did not experience such childcare as infants. (Burchinal, Lee, and Ramey, 1989) Without these interactions children who receive lower quality daycare or children reared at home scored lower on measures of academic achievement when tested against those children who were experienced.

Generally speaking there have been no true facts or data proving that day care attendance has a negative impact on the emotional development of children or the bond with their mother. While there are studies with findings that contradicts this statement, Belsky and Steinburg(1978) state, “many of the results cannot be generalized and have several limitations.” While this research has found links between child care and security issues, it also found that the links decrease over time and are usually completely gone by kindergarten or first grade. (Egeland and Heister1995.)