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Emotional relationships in infant-mother dyads in families where mothers provided full-time childcare were compared with those of families where mothers used in-home childcare providers and family childcare providers (N = 245). Infant relationships with childcare providers were also studied. Emotional relationships were adequate in all three childcare arrangements, but infant-mother dyads in in-home childcare arrangements displayed healthier emotional relationships than infant-mother dyads in mother care arrangements; no differences in the health of emotional relationships with infants emerged among the three types of childcare providers (mother care, in-home childcare, family childcare). Infant-mother dyads in in-home childcare arrangements also displayed healthier emotional relationships than infant-in-home childcare caregiver dyads, but infant-mother and infant-caregiver dyads were comparable in family childcare families. Emotional relationships in infant-mother and infant-caregiver dyads were not correlated, regardless of the type of childcare. (author abstract)
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