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daycare

All-day care for babies and young children, usually of working mothers. There is some controversy among psychologists about the effects on children of spending so much time with their peers when very young. Some early research indicated that daycare for very young children could make them insecure and aggressive, but research in the USA in 1990 indicated beneficial effects.



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