Safe, stimulating, and blessed by the U.K. government, nurseries have become the choice of new parents struggling to balance work and child raising. Rapid demographic and socio-economic changes in the past decade have expanded the labor market for women. As a result, private day care centers have quadrupled in Britain, transforming the early years of millions of children. Despite the fact that the U.K. has 450,000 children under three in nurseries, recent unsettling research in Britain, the U.S., and elsewhere suggests that the toddlers who are cared for by their mothers develop better than those cared for in nurseries or […]
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