Happy in care: it’s in the hormones
Children from loving homes are stressed when placed in poor quality child-care centres, new scientific evidence reveals. But children from disadvantaged families are better off in child care even if the quality is substandard. The Australian study measured the levels of cortisol - a hormone produced in response to stress - in 156 children attending 16 centres.
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