Title: Child care - Wikipedia
Headings: Child care
Child care
Contents
Overview
Child care by country
Australia
Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
India
Japan
Mexico
Norway
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
New Zealand
Types
In the child's home
In the provider's home
Center based childcare
Staff
Non-profit daycare
Family child care homes
Informal care
Children caring for adults
Effects on child development
Formal care
Health issues
Childcare infection
Value of unpaid childcare
Monetary value
History
Business
Access
Standards and requirements
Child development
Early cross cultural research on child care outside the home
See also
Notes
References related to the United States
References
External links

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Caring for children
At home
Parents
Extended family
Au pair
Babysitting
Governess
Nanny
Outside the home
Day care
Pre-school playgroup
Educational settings
Early childhood education
Pre-kindergarten
Preschool
Kindergarten
Primary school
Institutions and standards
Child protection
In loco parentis
Minor
Related
Child abuse
Child marriage
Child Online Protection
Family law
Men in early childhood education
Orphanage
Parenting
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A daycare in Nigeria
Child care, otherwise known as day care, is the care and supervision of a child or multiple children at a time, whose ages range from two weeks to eighteen years. Child care is a broad topic that covers a wide spectrum of professionals, institutions, contexts, activities, and social and cultural conventions. Early child care is an equally important and often overlooked component of child development. Care facilitated by similar-aged children covers a variety of developmental and psychological effects in both caregivers and charge. This is due to their mental development being in a particular case of not being able to progress as it should be at their age. This care giving role may also be taken on by the child's extended family. Another form of childcare that is on the rise in contrast to familial caregiving is that of center-based child care. In lieu of familial care giving, these responsibilities may be given to paid caretakers, orphanages or foster homes to provide care, housing, and schooling. Professional caregivers work within the context of a center-based care (including crèches, daycare, preschools and schools) or a home-based care ( nannies or family daycare). The majority of child care institutions that are available require that child care providers to have extensive training in first aid and be CPR certified.