Quality Child Care Matters

11/16/2007

If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not capable of developing compassion for others.
Dalai Lama

Young children who took part in an intervention program run by the Chicago public schools continue to benefit from the services well into adulthood, the latest data from a long-range study of participants shows. These results are reported in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (August, 2007), in an article entitled "Effects of a School-Based, Early Childhood Intervention on Adult Health and Well-Being."

At age 24 these adults had acquired more education and were less likely to have committed crimes than those who did not receive the same level of service. In addition, children who attended the city's Child-Parent Centers were more likely to have health insurance and be less apt to exhibit symptoms of depression.

The "Chicago Longitudinal Study", which started more than 20 years ago, originally included 1,539 children from low-income African-American and Hispanic families who began the program at 25 sites in either 1985 or 1986. For the study of 24-year-olds, data were available for 1,389 people — 902 of whom had participated in the Child-Parent program and 487 of whom had been enrolled in other types of early childhood programs or had attended full-day kindergarten but hadn't attended preschool.

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