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...professional day-care center is the fastest-growing option for working parents. There are an estimated 60,000 around the country, about half nonprofit and half operated as businesses. Costs vary widely, from $40 a week to as much as $120. In the best centers, children are cared for by dedicated professionals. At the nonprofit Empire State center in Farmingdale, N.Y., teachers make up lesson plans even for infants. Empire, which receives partial funding from New York State, keeps parents closely informed of their child's development. "If a child takes a first step, develops in the least, that parent...
...look at more typical settings. The analysis of the strange-situation test changed, placing less emphasis on the child's reaction to the stranger than on its attitude toward the returning mother. Some initial results were unsettling. Day-care children were more likely to remain anxious even after the parent had come back. Some actively avoided their mother. Last September in a report published in the journal Zero to Three, Belsky reversed his earlier position. He concluded that babies who spend more than 20 hours a week in nonmaternal care during the first year of life risk having an "insecure...
Most researchers do agree on a few things. During the first several months, babies appear to do best when tended to by one person, ideally a parent. For toddlers in day care, the ratio of children to adults is very important, and should be about 3 to 1. The size of the group may be even more critical. Two- year-olds do poorly in groups of more than...
...Harvard has thus far escaped the storm. "I have not received a single telephone call from a student or parent asking about our AIDSpolicy," says Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III."The community is a very sophisticated one and isdetermined that the rights of gay students andorganizations be protected...
...video stores and rent movies that they would not be able to see in a theater. Sometimes the youthful customers are content with somewhat less grisly fare, like the immensely successful Friday the 13th series. The ease with which minors can rent and watch such nightmarish visions has alarmed parent organizations around the country. These groups contend that while sexually provocative movies usually carry at least an R rating, "slasher" films containing explicit violence are often unrated and available to youngsters...