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Start Non-profit Child Care: The favored patterns of conduct are built into the child by the responses which adults make to his daily behavior. Some things he does are rewarded; others are disapproved or punished. The parents' skill in helping the child to profit by what the culture offers in the way of order and stability, or design for living, has much to do with his later attitude toward society. Whiting and Child (104, 1953) found that the child-care patterns characteristic of a culture are related to the type of adult personality which it commonly produces.
This definition is problem-focused, emphasizing prevention and remedy. It recognizes the value of strengthening a child's own home where possible. Where this is not possible, a variety of substitute living situations is provided.
Child 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-rearing task in three important ways: (1) to substitute for parental care either partially or wholly according to a child's individual needs; (2) to supplement the care that a child 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 children's needs.
In the United States, there are increasing group day care facilities, particularly under programs such as "Head-start non-profit child care" and "Get Set," which have the objective 'of breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty. These group day care centers may be called day nurseries, day care centers, child care centers, or nursery schook Not all nursery schools are true day care centers, but any good day care program for children of nursery school age will have an educational component in its program indistinguishable from that of a good nursery school. Because sound early childhood education is an important feature of a good day nursery as well as of a good nursery school, the distinction between the two kinds of programs tends to blur.
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