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High-quality child care for poor children found to offset the risk of later depression
05-17-2007 · EurekAlert!Young adults from low-income families who received full-time early educational childcare as young children reported fewer symptoms of depression than their peers who did not receive such services. The findings are based on the group of high-risk children who were enrolled in the Abcedarian Project as infants. Young adults who received these early services seem to have been protected against the adverse affects of negative early home environments associated with depression in the control group.
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