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Congress should not fund infant day care centers until training institutes for the staffs can be established, Jerome Kagan, professor of Developmental Psychology, told a session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Kagan yesterday said be favors day care centers but he would "like to see two years of preparation for the program." He cited the Headstart program as an example of an experiment that failed because of inadequate preparation.
Kagan told a symposium on education of the infant and young child that it is essential for ghetto mothers to approve of the arrangements that are made concerning the day care centers.
"A sense of control over one's future and a stake in the next days are likely to develop if the parent believes that a specific change is reasonable and that she has the option to choose it," he said.
"It is more important for a parent to believe that a particular change in her practices will help her," Kagan said, "than to have a set of interventions, in which she has no faith, imposed upon her."