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Article: Supporting quality in family child care: What does the research tell us? A message from Gillian Doherty, Professor, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph Data from the 2002–2003 cycle of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSYC) indicate that 30 percent of children ages six months to five years who receive regular non-parental care receive this care in a family child care home, 28 percent receive it in a centre and the remainder through some other arrangement. On average, children in family child care spend 27 hours a week in that setting. We know that children’s social, language and academic skills in elementary school are linked to the quality of the family child care they received prior to age five. Therefore, as a society we cannot afford to settle for care that is purely custodial. Excerpt from an article to be published in the summer issue of Interaction magazine.
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