While children's and parents' experience of separation has been the subject of many studies and considerable theoretical work, child caregivers' experience of separation has yet to be researched. The current study aimed, through in-depth interviews with ten Israeli day care workers, to contribute toward understanding of the experience of day care…

Despite the abundance of research on attachment and on the effects of separation, very little research examines the actual processes of separation occurring daily when mothers leave their children (age 6-18 months) in out-of-home group care. In the current study, this everyday process of separation was observed for three months…

Investigated through direct observation in the home whether mothers socialize differently boys and girls growing up as opposite-sexed twins, triplets, and quadruplets as a function of their different genders. Children and mothers were rated on behaviors about which contradictory evidence had been reported in the literature. (Author/DB)