In-home Childcare vs. Centered Childcare

In-home Childcare vs. Centered Childcare

Outline

The paper would discuss the increasing demand of centered childcare services in the 21st century. Moreover, the purported arguments would argue on the in-home care methods of childcare and how it can function simultaneously with centered childcare services. Bork and Wrohlich (2011) argue that drastic increase in women workforce in recent decades has led to a changes in childcare methods. However, their exists both positive as well as negative points for in-home care and centered childcare. These positions ought to be considered before any plausiable explanation can be drawn from the proposed debate.

Thesis

Use of centered childcare services is increasing with the life of parents becoming more complex than ever before, passing by at a faster pace with many commitments to respond to, yet it has not fully outcasted in-home care.

Introduction

Childcare is a domain of significant concern for effective childcare is considered as being attached with the effective development of children, not only in terms of academic outcome but also considering an overall outlook of their life. It is in recognition of that that the provisions regarding it are seen as escalating with significant attention directed towards it by relevant authorities. With more and more women opting to work even after having a child and inclining towards continuing their profession or career, the market had started to point towards an existing gap to cater to the target market of which, childcare centers usually known as day care centers have been opening (Bork and Wrohlich, 2011, pp. 444). This has indicated towards the decline in the in-home childcare as parents started to use centered childcare as an alternative to in-home childcare.

Discussion

This paper will predominantly focus on the positive as well as negative points for in-home care and centered childcare so as to arrive at the best possible outcome for the childcare. However, it is important to emphasize that it is also directly relevant to the circumstances of the parents and the children. Voluminous amount of research studies have indicated that stimulating, attentive and responsive care is the key to higher quality care. Higher quality lays the foundation of increased cognitive and linguistic academic functioning (Pluess and Belsky, 2009, pp. 400). It can be said without any doubt that the provision of such care that comes equipped with such sophisticated elements as stimulation, attention and responsiveness could only be effectively provided during in-home care ...