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Title: Ensuring Quality Care for Low-Income Babies Contracting Directly with Providers to Expand and Improve Infant and Toddler Care

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Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: The earliest years, from birth to age 3, are critical for young children’s healthy development. Experiences during the infant and toddler years shape the architecture of the brain— including cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional capacities—at a phenomenal rate and lay the foundation for future growth and learning.1 Nearly 5.8 million children under the age of 3 regularly spend some time in non-parental care.2 The quality of those earliest child care experiences is important for young children’s growth and . . .

Url: https://clasp.org/sites/default/files/public/resources-and-publications/files/0422.pdf

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Authors: Matthews, Hannah; Schumacher, Rachel

Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Family and Marriage, Other, Poverty and Welfare

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