Children of low income families benefit from quality educational child care as the involvement appears to protect children against the negative effects of their home environments.
The early intervention, for young children from infancy to age 5, appears to make a difference in decreasing symptoms of depression in early adulthood.
The report, from the FPG Child Development Institute (FPG) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, uses data from the Abecedarian Project, a longitudinal study begun in 1972 in which 111 high-risk children were randomly assigned to early educational child care from infancy to age 5 or to a control group that received various other forms of child care.
The study is published in the May/June 2007 issue of the journal Child Development.
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