SPENDING a year or more in a long-daycare centre increases the likelihood that a child will be disruptive at school.

A year of childcare ‘disrupts’

Child care was defined as regularly scheduled care by anyone other than the child’s mother, lasting at least 10 hours per week. Quality child care is complex to define but includes having trained caregivers and a low child-to-caregiver ratio.

The study found in 2001 that children who were in child care were more likely to be aggressive and defiant in kindergarten. Monday’s study follows them into the fifth and sixth grades.

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