3. Associations between cumulative observed home quality and child adjustment at 36 months, controlling for site, mother education, income-to-needs, mother psychological adjustment, child gender, percent time in centers, hours in care, and child care quality.
Table 7
Notes: Equations also include maternal ratings, income to needs, gender, HOME total score, maternal stimulation, average hours per week in childcare, number times in center care, number times in child care home.
Thus, a variety of factors must be considered if we are to determine whether associations between child care quality and children’s developmental outcomes are large enough for parents, researchers, and policy makers to care about, and whether effects warrant public or private expenditures to improve quality. (more…)