... than those held between child and carers in day care. This is partly because of the need to divide attention between a number of children at day care. On the other hand it has been shown that day care may boost cognitive development. Broberg (1997) compared Swedish children in nursery care with those looked after by a childminder, or remained at home. When these children were assessed at the age of 8, the children who had been to day care were consistently better than other groups on tests of verbal and mathematical ability. The impact on emotional development is would be perhaps the most concerning to a parent so its encouraging the majority of studies on emotional development in day care suggest it has no ill affects. For example Anderson (1992) found that children who attended before the age of 1 did the best and Clarke-Stewart (1994) found that the amount ...

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