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Date:9/16/2009

High-quality child care offsets deficits of poverty, study finds

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists have long known that poverty can inhibit a child's intellectual development. But now researchers have found a possible equalizer -- a good day care environment.

High-quality day care for the youngest poor kids may be enough to offset negative home environments and provide them the foundation for good school skills, at least up to the fifth grade, according to a new study.

Led by Eric Dearing, an associate professor at Boston College's Lynch School of Education, the research team found significant benefits from higher quality day care in the first five years of life.

Impoverished families may be too overwhelmed by the stresses of survival to devote time or resources to help their children achieve later academic success, but Dearing believes quality child care can fill the gap.

"Even minimal exposure to higher-quality child care at times was enough to offset the deprivation often encountered when growing up poor," said Dearing, whose team analyzed data on more than 1,300 children, many of them living at or below the federal poverty line, in 10 regions around the United States. The data, part of a long-term federal study that began in 1991, included half-day observations of children in child care.

Dearing defined "higher quality" day care as settings that offer above-average personal attention, intellectual stimulation and emotional comfort to babies and toddlers. Higher quality day care, he said, should not be confused with the elite services found in affluent communities. Rather, it can be as informal as a grandmother's house or as organized as an established neighborhood day care center.

The findings appear in the September/October issue of Child Development.

The study team, including researchers from Samford University in Alabama and the Harvard Grad
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