Edited by Phyllis Schlafly, ©1989, Page 47 …the mother-infant bond, which actually begins to form during the mother’s pregnancy, is unique and cannot be fully substituted by even the most sensitive and caring surrogate mother figures. Much less can it be substituted for by even the best-trained day caretakers, who may also be responsible for several or more other outplaced children who make time-consuming and often enervating demands.
Donald B. Rinsley, M.D., F.R.S.H.
In both situations, however, the adult caretakers lack the emotional bonding with the children that only the natural family’s parents can provide.
…the outplacement of young children in daycare with adult strangers, no matter how caring they may be, has negative long-term effects on their overall growth and development.
“A Child Psychiatrist Looks at Child Care”, Donald B. Rinsley, M.D., F.R.S.H.
Edited by Phyllis Schlafly, ©1989, Page 61 A study by Schwartz of daycare and home-reared infants found that those babies who began daycare during the first year of life were more likely to avoid their mothers during reunion episodes of the Strange Situation* than those babies raised at home by their mothers.
Finally, another study by Barglow et al. of affluent families in the Chicago area found that, when babies were placed in out-of-home care during the first year of life for 20 + hours per week, they displayed more avoidance of their mothers than those babies cared for by their mothers at home.