...Non-parental Child Care and the Developing Child Your name here SOC 312 Instructor Heald August 20, 2012 It has become increasingly difficult for families to enjoy even the most basic of necessities on a single income. Dual-earner families have become more common, which means that non-parental child care has become a necessity. There are three kinds of non-parental child care: in-home care, family day care, and center-based care. Children who receive non-parental child care are positively affected cognitively, psychological, and socially. In-home care is typically provided by a nanny or babysitter. The children are cared for in their own homes, an environment they are comfortable in. Family day care is a home-based child care facility that is licensed by the state. A family day care is run by the homeowners and they can usually only care for a small group of children ages 0 to 12 years. Center-based care has children grouped by age in different areas of the facility with qualified and fingerprinted teachers and aides. Children ages 2 years and older are typically in groups of twelve (12), younger children are in smaller groups as per licensing requirements by individual states. The type of child care chosen is not as important as the quality of care provided by those caring for the children. A study on the cognitive development of young children in non-parental child care states, “it has been shown that children, especially from low-income families...
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...Non – Parental Child Care Rhonda Swazer SOC 312 Instructor Rebekah Clark May 31, 2012 Non Parental Child Care Non-Parental child care is very important for many different reasons. It helps working parents attend their child’s needs when they themselves can’t do so. Non-parental childcare helps teach and mold children from an early age. It also helps children learn how to become self reliant earlier than latter on down the road. There are 3 different types of non-parental child care facilities which are childcare small childcare facility with 12 kids or less, childcare in a center with 30 or more kids, unrelated childcare in the kid’s homes. There are many ways that parents provide for the care of their children during work-times. The setting for childcare is a home center. The home may be the child owns home, a relative (grandmother, aunt, etc) home, or the home of an unrelated person. The individual caring for the child in the child’s own home may be the parent, a relative or an unrelated person such as a babysitter. Home care can included the simultaneous care of many children from other families. Home care is sometimes referred to as family day care even though the family may not be the child’s own family. Sometime going to a head start can make a child feel like a big boy or girl. For some children head start can be very reliant and the child can be very excited about learning. In home day care is very popular today a small day care facility...
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...Non Parental Child Care Non parental Child Care, and the Influences It has on Development Amara Washington SOC312 Nancy Russell July 9, 2012 Non Parental Child Care and the Influence it has on Development In today’s society more and more women are working outside of the homes and are not able to take care of the children on a full time bases. When the parents are unable to tend to their children, they have to seek help from an outside source. Years ago, it was natural for the mother of the children to stay at home and care for them while the father goes to work. But time has changed and there is a major increase in single parenting than before. Even in two parent homes, the mother has to work in order to maintain the house hold and this is why non parental child care comes in. Before I can address the different types of non parental child care, I must first explain what non parental child care is. As stated in chapter five of Child, Family, School, Community it states that non parental child care is also known as day care is care given to children by persons other than parents during the parts of the day when parents are absent. This process can start as early as the child being an infant and extend into school years. It also states in the chapter that 70% of children ages 0 to 6, not yet in kindergarten are in child care for all or part of the day. There are three types of non parental child care that I will discuss, and the influences it can have on a child...
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...Non-Parental Child Care Kiana R. Hoover SOC 312: Child, Family & Society Instructor: Kara O’Brien February 13, 2012 Non-Parental childcare is very important for many different reasons. It helps working parents attend to their child’s needs when they themselves can’t do so. Non-Parental childcare helps teach and mold children from an early age. It also helps children learn how to become self reliant earlier rather than latter on down the road. I went to a type of non-parental daycare facility it was fun and I was excited to go. I will talk about 3 different types of non-parental child care facilities which are childcare small childcare facility with 12 kids or less, childcare in a center with 30 or more kids, unrelated childcare in the kid’s home. I will then analyze the influences that non-parental childcare has on psychological, social and cognitive development on the children. There are many ways that parents provide for the care of their children during work-times. The setting for child care is a home or a center. The home may be the child’s own home, a relative’s (grandparent, aunt, etc.) home, or the home of an unrelated person. The individual caring for the child in the child’s own home may be the parent, a relative, or an unrelated person such as a babysitter. Home care can include the simultaneous care of many children from many families. Home care is sometimes referred to as family day care, even though the family may not be the child’s own...
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...Non-Parental Childcare: Understanding How it Affects Children Patricia L. Johnson SOC 312 Instructor Okantey May 21, 2012 Non-Parental Childcare: Understanding How it Affects Children There are many different types of childcare available in society today and most are much different than childcare that was experienced a few decades ago. Today’s parents are having to work outside the home more than ever before and need others to help care for their children while they are at work. Non-parental childcare comes in to play at this point. Non-parental childcare is childcare that is provided for children that comes from someone other than the child’s parents. (Berns, 2013) Non-parental childcare usually comes in three main types, child-care centers, family day-care homes, and in-home care: nannies. (Berns, 2013) These three types can include a variety of subtypes of non-parental childcare, including having a friend or relative watch a child, hiring a sitter, using a neighborhood cooperative to care for children, using a childcare (commonly known as a daycare center or preschool program) center, hiring an in-home nanny, or using before and/or after school programs. Non-parental childcare that takes place in daycare centers or preschool programs and most in-home nannies that are hired usually have been trained in how to care for a child. All types of non-parental childcare contribute to the socialization of children, as well as enhancing other areas...
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...Non-Parental Childcare First, we must look at what is non-parental childcare? Non-parental childcare is defined as care a child receives that is not from a mother, father or guardian and includes the use of daycare provider inside or outside the home by relative, non-relative, nursery school or preschool. In this paper the examination of three types of non-parental childcare and the analyzing of the influence non-parental childcare has on psychological, social and cognitive development. In today’s society parent are pursuing their careers and working outside of the homes. There is a demand for children to be taken care of while parents are working in order to provide for their families. When parents have to work in order to provided financially for their family non-parental childcare is needed. Parents seek different types of care, depending on their working hours, affordability, and the quality of childcare offered. Not all non-parental daycare offer the same benefits in hours, rates or quality of care needed. The first two types of non-parental childcare are daycare center providers and family daycare providers where children from six weeks to eleven years of age can attend these facilities. These types of facilities are licensed and monitored by the State and there are certain guidelines and rules that must be followed by either facility. Parents have guidelines that they must follow pertaining to the center expectation from the parent. The staff-child ratio varies...
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...Non Parental Childcare: Quality Matters SOC: 312 Child, Family, & Society Instructor: Keia Farr June 18, 2012 There are three types of child care that parents use to have others watch their children while they are not available. These types are referred to as Non parental childcare. Non parental childcare is the care given to children by persons other than parents during the parts of the day that parents are absent. (Berns, pg. 156) The care of children today is more likely to be provided by someone other than the parent. One is a licensed Childcare facility, Family, Friends or Neighbors (FFN), or a Family Childcare Home Center. Making the decision to have outsiders care for your children is not an easy one, but it is one parents have to make in order to meet the needs of the family by working. In some situations both parents have to work to support the family, therefore non-parental care is a most. Non parental childcare plays a major role in the socialization of children. The effect on a child’s psychological, social and cognitive development is left in the hands of individuals who are picked to care for children. Children between the ages of 6 weeks to 4 years old spend a great amount of time with caregivers other than their parents, usually in a childcare setting. (Some refer to it as Daycare) There were some studies about child care that indicated children who attend childcare centers they are more likely will do better when they start school, also...
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...Non-Parental Child Care Tammy LeStourgeon SOC312: Child Family & Society Instructor: Rebekah Clark October 8, 2012 In today’s society, it has become more and more difficult for a family to live comfortably and enjoy the even the most essential necessities of life on the income of one family member. In most households today we find a dual family income which has made the operation of non-parental child care increasingly more common. Non-parental child care, as referred to in our text, is any care given to a child or children by any individual other than the parent(s) during which time of the day both parents are absent. There are many way within which parents provide care for their child. Non-parental child care can be in the fashion of in-home care by a nanny or babysitter, a family member or friend caregiver, or a professional day-care center. Each of these non-parental caregivers, as with the parent, is equally responsible for positively affecting the child cognitively, psychologically and socially. The setting for a child might be in-home care by either a nanny or a babysitter. This care would be at the child’s home wherein the child is most comfortable. The individual caring for the child may be that of a nanny or a babysitter. During the initial years of life, the child will be forming the attachment and developmental relationships that are vital to his/her future. If successful, the child will also create such a relationship with...
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...Non-parental Child Care SOC 312 Lisa Tobler October, 8th, 2012 Non-parental Child Care There are three types of non-parental child care. These are child care centers, care inside or outside the home by someone who is a relative or non-relative, and daycare in a home (Hagy, 1998). Centers or preschools are usually regulated while care inside or outside of the home are usually non-regulated. Each type of child care has different effects on psychological, social, and cognitive development for children. A child care center may be a place like Head Start or a preschool that has certain criteria that is regulated by the government (Hagy, 1998). In a center staff the teachers are required to have some form of education; many require at least 12 credit hours in early childhood education. The teachers have to follow lesson plans that meet standards of the center and the government. Many child care centers are large, have more than one location, and accept government assistance or go by income of the family to adjust payment accordingly. Care inside the home or outside the home is by a relative, at the child’s home or in the relative’s home. It can also be a non-relative in the child’s home or in the non-relatives home. A relative may be a cousin, aunt, uncle, or grandparent. A non-relative can be a regular babysitter, a nanny, or come from a nanny, au pair, babysitting service. A nanny or service providing care for a child can be expensive, but convenient...
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...Non-Parental Childcare Paper Jonnathan Estrada Ashford University SOC 312 Child Family & Society Bridget Morales April 09, 2012 In the past half century, there has been a dramatic increase of mothers who have entered the workforce as women have taken on expanding roles in their occupations accompanying the men in our society (Marshall, 2004). In today’s society, it is very common that both parents take on the role of being a breadwinner, seeking a higher education and pursuing their career dreams. This has contributed to the 60 percent of children ages 0-6 and the 50 percent of children ages 6- 14 who receive part time or full time alternative childcare other than from their parents. (Berns, 2010). These statistics have raised questions to researchers as to whether or not children in a day care setting are at any advantages or disadvantages because they spend so much of their time outside of the home. In this paper I will explore the 3 different kinds of non-parental childcare and analyze the influences it may have on a child’s psychological, social and cognitive development. In many situations, a relative, friend, baby sitter or even a nanny may come into the home to take care of a child (Berns, 2010). This setting is commonly mixed between family members who are available such as grandparents who are no longer working and have the time to care for the children...
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...the family is financially secure and any children of the relationship are efficiently cared for. Many of the amendments made to legislations centre on enforcing parental responsibility and ensuring decisions are made in best interests of children. A function of the family is to care and protect its members. Our changing society has resulted in changing family structures. This has created a need in the community and law to reform and amend law in order to better protect society. The law has given married couples the option to separate and divorce for the benefit of their wellbeing and others. The law has put in place procedures during and after the fact of divorce...
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...The Impact of Divorce on Children Jennifer Maples Liberty University Abstract When parents reject each other by divorce that eventually ends in totally separate lives for the father and the mother, the strengths of their children are not as developed as they could be, and ore weaknesses occur in major outcomes such as derivations, addictions, abuse and failure. When fathers and mothers belong to each other in marriage their children thrive, when they are indifferent or walk away from each other or reject each other, their children do not thrive as much, and many wilt a lot. The children of parents who reject each other suffer: in deep emotional pain, ill health, depression, anxiety, even shortened life span; more drop out of school, less go to college, they earn less income, they develop more addictions to drugs and alcohol, and they engage in increased violence or suffer it within their homes. Society also suffers with more gangs, more assaults, more violence against women and children, more sexual abuse of women and children, and much bigger bills for jails, increased need for health care supplemental education, addiction programs, foster care, homelessness programs, and on and on. The expansion of all these social program budgets is directly linked to the breakdown of marriage. When mothers and fathers belong to each other and strive to belong to God in worship the greatest strengths emerge and the least problems are present. All Children are affected by divorce...
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...roles to better their education. Having full time work and childcare assistance is the hardest to come by. 60 % of children ages from 0-6 and 50 % of children ages 6-14 only receive part time or full time alternative other than from their parents. The statistics raises the question to researchers who whether or not children in day care setting are at any advantages or disadvantages because of the time they spend most time away from home. Describing three different kinds of non-parental childcare and analyze the influences it may have in a child’s psychological, social and cognitive development. With today’s economy, many parents cannot afford childcare so they seeking for at homecare with a family member. The child may or may not being getting the same behavior or activities that a school or day care will provides. There are some studies about children care that indicated a childcare center they are more likely would do better when they start school and develops their social skills with others. Social skills is a main factor for a child development, they need to have the knowledge of what is acceptable and what is not. Many parents do feel that they children are a lot safer with a family member than with a person they do not know much about. This is an ideal situation because someone they trust with reduces the stress of leaving the child provides the non-parental care. Thinking about the real tics of the situation this relative or friend, is probably not licensed, nor has received...
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...the home, gangs organizations, repeated neighborhood delinquents, increased availability of weapons and new technology violent games have something to do with the growing of our young people getting in trouble and becoming part of the juvenile delinquent system. However in my opinion the number one cause of juvenile delinquency is the breakdown of families, including lack of parental control over their children. It is ironic in America, in todays age, a person must poses a driver's license to operate a vehicle, a permit to own a gun and even a license to have a pet, but one does not have to have proper training or a license in order to become a parent. Without specialized educational or programs in child development and parenting, many of our future parents will not have a chance at becoming successful parents and worse, many of todays parents are already contributing to the increasing problem of juvenile delinquency simply by not knowing how to raise their children. Being a parent is a major commitment that has a direct impact on us has a society new parents must learn parenting skills before having children, they will not get a second chance to correct their fault, they must realize if they don’t want to increase the problem with the youths today they must do something about it, when I was growing up. My mother was very strict, she did...
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...gender and birth order on parenting practices Gender and birth order the moderators parenting Izabela Tissot Sampaio Antunes Federal University of Santa Catarina * , Mauro Luís Vieira ABSTRACT This study evaluated gender and birth order as moderating variables of parenting practices and perception of parental preference from the point of view of the children. Participated in the survey 322 adolescents between 13 and 17 years. Parenting Styles Inventory (ESI) and a questionnaire developed by the authors: two instruments for data collection were used. Data were analyzed by non-parametric statistics (MannWhitney and Kruskal-Wallis). By analyzing the results, it was found that: (a) the gender of the children interferes significantly in rates of parenting style, (b) the first-born had significantly higher risk of suffering from negative parenting practices, and (c) the perception of preference parenting is influenced by gender and birth order of the children. Keywords: Gender, Birth Order, Parental Educational Practices. ABSTRACT This study Aimed at Assessing gender and birth order influence on parenting and Perceived parental favoritism from the children perspective. The participants were 322 adolescents aged between 13 and 17 years old. Two instruments were used to collect data - Parenting Styles Inventory and a questionnaire developed by the authors. Nonparametrical statistics (Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis) were used to analyze the data Obtained.Results have...
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