@article{ref1,
title="Early day care, infant-mother attachment, and maternal responsiveness in the infant's first year",
journal="Early childhood research quarterly",
year="1992",
author="Burchinal, Margaret R. and Bryant, Donna M. and Lee, Marvin W. and Ramey, Craig T.",
volume="7",
number="3",
pages="383-396",
abstract="Whether routine nonmaternal care contributes to the development of insecure infant-mother attachment has been vigorously debated. Selection bias and age of entry to day care have been cited as potentially important confounding factors. The day-care attachment issue was examined with a longitudinal sample of 45 infants whose parents all agreed to place their infant in a research day-care center if selected, and who, if they received nonmaternal care, began day care by the age of 7 months. Routine, full-time, nonmaternal care was not associated with increased insecure attachment. In addition, day care did not negatively change, and sometimes enhanced, the associations between the infant-mother attachment and the mother's involvement and warmth toward her infant during the first year of life.<p />",
language="",
issn="0885-2006",
doi="10.1016/0885-2006(92)90028-W",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0885-2006(92)90028-W"
}