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Child Care Arrangements and Children's Functioning: A Comparison of Self-Care and Adult-Care Children.
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Rodman, Hyman; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Self-care children were compared with control children in adult care to investigate whether self-care (latchkey) arrangements have negative consequences for children. On several measures of children's social and psychological functioning, no significant differences were found between two matched samples. (Author/DST)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Children