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Child Care Observations: This definition is problem-focused, emphasizing prevention and remedy. It recognizes the value of strengthening a child care observations's own home where possible. Where this is not possible, a variety of substitute living situations is provided.
child care observations welfare services are directed to the social problem of deprivation of parental care. As the accompanying chart illustrates, they are designed to help with society's child care observations-rearing task in three important ways: (1) to substitute for parental care either partially or wholly according to a child care observations's individual needs; (2) to supplement the care that a child care observations receives, or to compensate for certain inadequacies or limitations in parental care; and (3) to support or reinforce the ability of parents to meet their child care observationsren's needs.
Service designed to substitute for natural parental care, either partially or completely, is still the predominant child care observations welfare service. Of the total number of child care observationsren receiving child care observations welfare services in the United States, more than half are receiving service away from their own homes and their own families.
Substitute care programs include foster family care, institutional care, and adoption.
1. Clinical observations of these relations as cause and effect have not been satisfactorily confirmed by research.
2. The infant is more likely to be influenced by the feelings of comfort or discomfort that result from certain infant care practices and by deprivation of sensory experiences than by interpersonal relations only. (However, the mother's attitude may be reflected in the way she handles the baby, and these child care observations's behavior at any given time is "a product of his native endowment, of his immediate situation, and of the qualities of personality he has developed up to that moment in his life." (84, pp. 453-454, 1957) child care observations-rearing is one of many factors.
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