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National Institute of Child Health and Human Development(NICHD)

SECCYD

The major goal of the NICHD Study is to examine how differences in child care experiences relate to children's social, emotional, intellectual, and language development, and to their physical growth and health. Other goals of the Study include: Describing the variety, stability, and changes in children's non-maternal child care experiences over time, including the child's age when first placed in child care, and the quantity and quality of care (for instance, how old were most children when they first entered child care? How many hours did most children spend in child care each week? What types of child care arrangements did children experience? How much time did caregivers spend interacting with children?); Identifying demographic and family characteristics associated with different patterns of child care use; Comparing the development of children who were cared for primarily by their mothers to those who spent much of their time in non-maternal care; Identifying the specific links between certain features of non-maternal child care (such as quality of care, hours each week in care, and type of care) and child development, while taking into account the important and well-documented roles of the family; in other words, identifying the exclusive link (or net effect) between child care and child development; Determining whether associations between child care experiences and children's development were the same for children from different family backgrounds (such as for African American and white children, for children from rich and poor families, for children receiving more and less sensitive parenting, etc.); and Understanding how family characteristics (such as parents' emotional sensitivity, the quality of the home environment, parents' education, parents' psychological adjustment, and parents' attitudes and beliefs) are related to development for children who do and do not experience child care.

Child; Child Development; Child; Preschool; Infant; Infant; Newborn; Mother-Child Relations; Longitudinal Studies; Maternal Behavior; Social Environment

The NICHD started the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD), formerly the NICHD Study of Early Child Care (SECC), in 1991 to collect information about different non-maternal child care arrangements and to determine how variations in child care are related to children's development. The result, the SECCYD, is the most comprehensive study conducted to date of children and the many environments in which they develop.

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1976