Using multiple sources of information, the research team collected detailed information about the family environment, the child care environment, children's development, and children's physical growth and health status over their first 7 years. They focused on determining the unique contribution of child care to the development of children, over and above the important and documented association between family circumstances and children's developmental outcomes. Scientific papers to date focus on the children's first 3 years of life.
	Higher Quality Care was related to Higher cognitive performance of children in child care Better language comprehension and production in children Higher level of school readiness Lower Quality Care Predicted More problem behaviors, poorer cognitive and language ability, and lower school readiness scores

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