As child care centers face collapse and schools stumble toward the fall, parents struggle to stay afloat. The consequences for children will be devastating.
The survey also found that half of the child care centers operated by minority business owners are at risk of closing permanently, yet another sign of how this crisis has been disproportionately hard on people of color.
There’s a vast amount of important development that happens to children during the early years of life, he noted. And when children are exposed to chronic, toxic stress ― as when their parents are suffering from material, financial hardships ― it leads to fundamental changes in the way they develop. The consequences are long-reaching.
The survey was conducted in June and 5,344 people working in center-based or in-home child care facilities responded.After 30 years of working at and eventually owning a small child-care center in Wooster, Massachusetts, Bibi Nageer closed up shop in mid-June. But since then proposals seeking more funding have gone nowhere. And that initial bit of funding is running out.Shaun Rose, the director of the Rock Spring Children's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, in April sat at the facility that had closed the previous month because of the coronavirus pandemic. The center reopened on June 1, but is struggling financially.
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