Stress: Center-based Child Care And Insensitive Parenting May Have Lasting Effects

Researchers following about 1,000 children from 1 month through mid-adolescence have shown that children who, during their first three years, (a) had mothers who were more insensitive and/or (b) spent more time in center-based child care -- whether of high or low quality -- were more likely to have the atypical pattern of lower levels of cortisol just after awakening when they were 15 years of age, which could indicate higher levels of early stress.

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