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Over the past 15 years, we have seen a dramatic shift in the environments in which young children spend their time. Whereas a decade and a half ago fewer than one third of the preschool-aged children in this country were in any kind of preschool program, now over half attend a nursery school, kindergarten, or day-care center. An even more striking rise has occurred for infants and toddlers; their participation in such programs has more than doubled in the same period. In addition, many thousands of children are now spending a significant portion of their time in other kinds of nonparental care environments—with a babysitter, a neighbor, an aunt, or a paid day-care home provider. Every year the number of young children in some form of “nontraditional” child care environment increases markedly.
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Clarke-Stewart, K.A. (1991). A Home Is Not a School. In: Lewis, M., Feinman, S. (eds) Social Influences and Socialization in Infancy. Genesis of Behavior, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2620-3_3
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