Cumulative Risk and Continuity in Nonparental Care from Infancy to Early Adolescence.

Variations in amounts of nonparental care across infancy, preschool, early elementary school, and early adolescence were examined. Correlations among overall amounts of care provided little evidence of cross-time continuity; grade 1 self-care and grade 6 unsupervised peer contact incrementally predicted grade 6 problems; and most predictive associations were accounted for by family background and social relationship factors. (Author/SD)